The phrase "a lack of benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the absence of a standard or point of reference for comparison in various contexts, such as performance evaluation or project assessment.
Example: "The project's success is difficult to measure due to a lack of benchmark against which to evaluate its outcomes."
Alternatives: "absence of a standard" or "deficiency of a reference point".
Due to a lack of benchmarking anomaly detection method specifically for VSTLF, three other methods are selected for Comparisons.
Other issues that stand out in power optimization and management design challenges are: (1) the statistical uncertainty about the workload, parameters and target system, and (2) a lack of benchmarks and evaluation techniques.
Operating at an external level: a lack of benchmarks in practice meant that assessing one's performance in relation to peers was problematic since no 'gold standard' existed.
In contrast, the processing methods involved in 16S rRNA studies suffer from a lack of benchmarking tests or gold standard references [ 24].
In this context, there is a lack of benchmarking tools for RRS to facilitate comparison between centres and processes, and to promote regular internal quality assurance beyond the frequency of cardiopulmonary arrests [ 14].
Further, there is a lack of a benchmark approach and test-bed evaluation for academic and commercial iris quality assessment techniques.
Due to a lack of a benchmark, the interpretation of energy performance problems is still primarily based on the auditors' experiences and knowledge, which can cause the outcomes to be subjective or inconsistent.
However, there is a lack of suitable benchmark problems which allow a fair and systematic evaluation and comparison of these contributions.
Despite these contributions, there is still a lack of suitable benchmark problems in systems biology that are at the same time (i) dynamic, (ii) large-scale, (iii) ready-to-run, and (iv) available in several common formats.
Second, there is a lack of good benchmark studies that would set a standard for research applying theories of the policy process to public health policy, and consequently the kinds of superficial and uninsightful papers as discussed above find their way through editorial and peer-reviewed processes too easily.
