The phrase "altering the distribution of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing changes to how something is spread, shared, or allocated, such as in statistics, economics, or resource management.
Example: "The new policy is aimed at altering the distribution of wealth within the community to ensure a more equitable society."
Alternatives: "modifying the allocation of" or "changing the spread of".
"It's basically an arms race".This war of the machines is fundamentally altering the distribution of profits and revenues within the industry.
The great Quaternary ice ages, which came later, were very important in altering the distribution of animals over a large part of the world, but migrations occurred long before.
Researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculate that the recent earthquake in Japan pushed the Earth's rotational axis more than 6.5 inches, while the quake in Chile in 2010 shifted it by 2.8 inches, through slightly altering the distribution of mass across the Earth.
Two other alternative approaches aim at improving the low-order all-pole model performance, by first transforming the input signal and hence altering the distribution of its tonal components.
Although obesity has been thought to contribute to LBP primarily by altering the distribution of mechanical loads on the spine, the additional contribution of obesity-related conditions such as diabetes mellitus (DM) to LBP has not been thoroughly examined.
At local scales, physicochemical gradients contribute to variation in weathering rates, altering the distribution of phosphorus among chemical fractions, which differ in their potential mobility and availability to microorganisms.
It has recently been shown that alterations of the dynamics of the sleep homeostat can also alter the distribution of sleep [49].
These structural changes fundamentally altered the distribution of power in society.
A large quake can shift huge amounts of rock and alter the distribution of mass on the planet.
Population control doesn't rock the boat very much; it doesn't fundamentally alter the distribution of wealth and power today.
If a suspect reclining on it told a lie, Mosso hypothesized, resulting changes in blood flow would alter the distribution of weight on the bed, unbalancing it.
