The phrase "a distinct factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when identifying or emphasizing a specific element that contributes to a situation or outcome.
Example: "In our analysis, a distinct factor influencing the results was the level of participant engagement."
Alternatives: "a unique element" or "a specific aspect".
Responding to client questions last year about the newly popular approach, Dimensional Fund Advisors concluded there was not much to the low-volatility strategy that was not already established in 1992 research by Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French, showing that value is a distinct factor in explaining market returns.
In other instances, the student does perceive the necessity of the change, but a distinct factor is identified as a cause of the change.
The high expectation of moral leadership has been demonstrated to be a distinct factor of Chinese implicit leadership theories which differ from the implicit leadership theories in western countries (Ling et al. 2000).
The CTCU framework treats the negative wording effect as a methodological artefact rather than a distinct factor by allowing the item uniqueness related to the negatively worded items to be correlated (Ye and Wallace 2013).
The type of two-factor solution grouped the grammar tasks as a single factor and grouped the reading and listening tasks as another factor, while the three-factor solution loaded each task into a distinct factor.
Under the optimal power allocation strategy, each beamformer vector w ~ i is scaled up from the unnormalized beamformer vector w i with a distinct factor η i ≜ p i, which is optimally determined.
Given that this factor constitutes a distinct component of the scale, it may be concluded that attitudes that favour discrimination should be included in a complete conceptualization of stigmatizing attitudes, as suggested by Pescosolido et al. [ 77].
The fact that PMF is able to retrieve a low-concentration, yet distinct factor (OOA-2) highlights its strength in extracting information from datasets, e.g., resolving factors that make up a small fraction of the total mass.
If the correlations are strong and a few, distinct factors are identified, small samples could be adequate.
These observations strongly support the hypothesis that asRNAs belonging to a distinct σ factor regulon can interact with targets of different σ factor regulons.
A psychiatric researcher warned that this latest pastime was "a distinct influencing factor in the case of every single delinquent or disturbed child" he had studied.
