The phrase "a legitimate analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an analysis that is valid, credible, or acceptable in a particular context, such as academic or professional discussions.
Example: "The researchers provided a legitimate analysis of the data, which supported their conclusions."
Alternatives: "a valid assessment" or "a credible evaluation."
The atmosphere today is completely different to the 1970s; Republicans' arguments are all partisan driven, they aren't based on any legitimate analysis of science".
This method of constant comparison and sorting is a legitimate data analysis method in qualitative analysis [ 34].
By introducing so many trading records and reports that show Galleon did legitimate analysis, the defence aims to suggest that Mr Rajaratnam was nothing more than a meticulous researcher.
One legitimate analysis published in PLOS ONE in June 2013 found that from 2003 to 2011, meta-analysis papers from China rose more than 16 times faster than did such papers from the United States.
(West also mashed Stubbs' dental mold into Williams' skin, but the trial judge accepted it as a legitimate method of analysis).
"There were a lot of problems with the report from a real, legitimate economic analysis perspective," said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for the Senate Finance Committee's Republicans.
If everyone who constitutes "a bad guy" is automatically a legitimate target, then careful analysis of threats, imminence, proportionality, credibility, reliability and other factors simply goes out the window.
The methodology of discovery is a legitimate topic for philosophical analysis (section 8).
"It is a legitimate exercise of economic analysis to examine the consequences of various value judgments, whether or not they are shared by the theorist".
Indel analysis is a legitimate method of phylogenetic inference but is seriously hampered not only by horizontal gene transfer but, more importantly, by the possibility of homoplasy, that is, independent insertions in the same region of homologous proteins.
