The phrase "a supportive analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an analysis that provides encouragement or assistance, often in the context of evaluating a situation or argument.
Example: "The report included a supportive analysis of the proposed changes, highlighting their potential benefits."
Alternatives: "an encouraging analysis" or "a helpful analysis".
Non-parametric methods were also used on the primary efficacy variable as a supportive analysis.
The Per-Protocol (PP) population was used as a supportive analysis.
A supportive analysis will investigate any effect of time by including the fixed effect of year.
Because the data were skewed, non-parametric methods were also used on the primary efficacy variable as a supportive analysis.
To explore the robustness of the primary analysis, a supportive analysis of period 1 alone was examined.
Patients who came off study for withdrawal, progressive disease or death were considered treatment failures for the primary analysis, but a supportive analysis was performed excluding these patients.
The FATF report acts as a useful corollary and counterpoint to a recent U.S. State Department report on terrorism around the world, which offered a broadly supportive analysis of Saudi efforts and emphasised the cooperation between Washington and Riyadh.
The primary endpoint was analysed using the Wilcoxon rank sum test for observed data with a separate supportive analysis using linear extrapolation (LE) to impute missing values.
The PP analysis is a useful supportive analysis to estimate the non-diluted treatment effect, and especially in nutritional studies where the expected effect sizes may be smaller than that for a medicinal product this is important.
In the case where the primary non-inferiority endpoint was met, an additional supportive analysis of superiority of the primary endpoint was performed.
Therefore, the full analysis set was added as a supportive sensitivity analysis set to the primary analysis to determine the difference between the two groups.
