"rough method" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are describing a method of doing something without too much detail or accuracy. For example, "I used a rough method to estimate how much time it would take to finish the job."
Some terrorism experts, such as Rohan Gunaratna, who has written a book about Al Qaeda, argue that rough methods and, even more so, the threat of rough methods are sometimes necessary to extract information quickly that could save lives.
The report describes what one official called "trench warfare" between the F.B.I. and the military over the rough methods being used on detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq.
I asked Mutale Kasokola, who is depicted in "The Eye of the Elephant" firing cherry bombs at poachers, if he thought the rough methods were justified.
An official familiar with a still-incomplete investigation by the Democratic staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee said the evidence did not support Mr. Rodriguez's assertion that the rough methods, widely condemned as torture, were necessary.
Unfortunately, many valuable dinosaur specimens were damaged or destroyed due to the pair's rough methods: for example, their diggers often used dynamite to unearth bones (a method modern paleontologists would find appalling).
The evaluation results show that the top three highest performing methods are the nonlinear autoregressive neural network, rough sets method, and monthly replacement.
We use rough entropy method to calculate the similarity between data points and employ the basic idea of DBSCAN method to merge the clusters which have common data points to generate target clusters.
That month, the law professor Alan Dershowitz, in a Boston Globe op-ed column critical of the rough interrogation method, put the two words together as a verbal noun or gerund.
However, traditional rough set method deals with discrete data only.
