The phrase "analysis is lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that there is insufficient examination or evaluation of a subject or issue.
Example: "The report was informative, but the analysis is lacking, leaving several key questions unanswered."
Alternatives: "insufficient analysis" or "analysis is inadequate."
Mike Freeman did his homework in preparing his article on the Ohio State football player Maurice Clarett ("When Values Collide: Clarett Got Unusual Aid in Ohio State Class," July 13), but his analysis is lacking.
However, a comprehensive analysis is lacking on the possible contributing factors to balance.
However, the area of vibration characterization and analysis is lacking for microelectronic packaging and nonexistent for compliant interconnects.
If the car's motion is something we perceive, and it certainly seems to be, Reid's antirealist analysis is lacking in plausibility.
The literature on JNCC is growing, but a rigorous diversity analysis is lacking, mainly because of the many degrees of freedom in wireless networks, which makes it very hard to prove general statements on the diversity order.
The forest system carbon balance is the difference between the biological (net ecosystem production) and industrial (net emissions from forest industry) forest carbon cycles, but to date this critical whole system analysis is lacking.
This leads him to write of a fatal "double bind" afflicting anthropology: the very "purity" it craves is no more than a state in which all frames of comprehension, of interpretation or analysis, are lacking; once these frames are brought to bear, the mystery that drew the anthropologist towards his subject evaporates.
For this approach, stability and convergence analysis are lacking, and thus we address these here with a probabilistic result.
Despite significant research effort dedicated to such buildings, the understanding of seismic behavior of infilled frames is still not adequate and guidelines for their modeling and analysis are lacking in the design codes.
Also at vents, the large majority of nematodes are deposit feeders [39], however biomarker analysis are lacking so far.
In most case, however, either appropriate analysis was lacking, denominators were not reported, time series data were not shown (making interrupted time series designs vulnerable to pre-existing trends), or numbers were too small to draw firm conclusions.
