The phrase "are able to attribute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability of assigning a cause or source to something, often in contexts involving analysis or interpretation.
Example: "Researchers are able to attribute the increase in temperature to climate change."
Alternatives: "can assign" or "are capable of identifying".
To sum up, we are able to attribute up to 55%% of the immigrant-native achievement gap to only few observable individual characteristics.
A variety of non-linguistic tasks have been given to animals and infants to determine the extent to which they are able to attribute mental states to others (see Tomasello, Call, & Hare 2003 for work on chimpanzees and Onishi & Baillargeon 2005 for work on infants; see also Bloom & German 2000).
By addressing the likely impact of the potential contributions from protein ligand interactions, we are able to attribute the anomalous ΔCp for the nucleotides largely to a change in the conformation of the domain structure and local motion in the lid region of N-Hsp90 with the concomitant exposure of hydrophobic amino acid side chains.
Those who thoroughly work on their business plans develop an intrinsic motivation to work on it and develop an internal locus of control where they are able to attribute what they do to their efforts and hard work rather than on external factors.
This unidentified Bakersfield man is the first face that local cops are able to attribute to a new crime wave plaguing the area: thieves and drug dealers stealing security cameras for their own homes.
As mentioned in Introduction, when we lose our footing (i.e. make a motor error), we are able to attribute this motor error to a self-prediction error caused by our misperception of the external world (exogenous event) or by misgeneration of the motor program (endogenous event).
To be proud of it, I'd have to be able to attribute it to something I did".
"Being able to attribute it to a state agent is technically difficult but there is some evidence that this is at least tolerated or desired by the state".
And only eighteen per cent were able to attribute this quote about Palin to its proper source, Condoleezza Rice: "She's governor of a state here in the United States".
Shaun Groves, a crime intelligence analyst, told the jury he had been able to attribute certain messages to either Hoare or Matthews, while others were unclear.
Traditionally, genetic research starts with a mutant phenotype, and, by Mendelian crossing analysis, a researcher is able to attribute the phenotype to a specific gene.
