The phrase "a cursory analysis of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a brief or superficial examination of a subject or topic.
Example: "In this report, we will provide a cursory analysis of the current market trends."
Alternatives: "a brief examination of" or "a superficial review of".
A cursory analysis of the exhibit shows that the permissions price is often a multiple of the number of copies requested, i.e. the number of students supplied.
A cursory analysis of these tables shows, for example, that in device I3 91.21% of background events were ACIS bit map grade 255 events (i.e. all eight neighboring pixels were above the split threshold).
But even a cursory analysis of the study's methods makes you wonder why anyone would take such a finding seriously, let alone order a Quarter Pounder With Cheese to celebrate it, as many newspaper readers no doubt promptly went out and did.
A cursory analysis of autocorrelation heatmaps (e.g., Figure 4a) revealed that in some cases, the regulation by miRNA appeared to be exclusive from the regulation by methylation probes; methods are described in detail in Supplementary Note 8 and Supplementary Figure 18.
Once I assuaged those concerns with a cursory analysis of the width of the river and the dry, clear blue sky, I decided this was a fine place to camp.
In the last section, there is a cursory analysis of some short sentences including adverbial constructions [lupus est in fabula] and some liturgical formulae [patris et filii et spiritus sancti, ita missa est].
Although one might predict that genes containing multiple binding sites would show a higher degree of correlation to Oct4, a very cursory analysis of the data reveals that this is in fact not the case.
In their opinion, the judges contended that Goldman , Sachs & Company SCM's investment banker, had conducted a surprisingly cursory analysis of the value of SCM's food and pigments businesses.
While there are still too few cancer WGS studies to allow more than a cursory analysis, a recent WGS study of ovarian tumours reported no additional cancer genes beyond what had been found by earlier exome sequencing of the same cancer type44.
To estimate the rate of false positives, a cursory analysis was carried out (data not shown).
A cursory analysis would support this conclusion with approximately a quarter of the drugs currently on the market having modes of action via targeting GPCRs [ 2,3,4].
