The phrase "are attempting to quantify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to measure or express something in numerical terms or specific values.
Example: "Researchers are attempting to quantify the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "are trying to measure" or "are working to assess".
We are attempting to quantify this information leakage through a policy written in the Bro IDS.
But that is still not enough.Although the industry is going through a rough patch commercially, reinsurers are attempting to quantify more carefully their exposure to catastrophe risk.
Platforms that flash engagement rates are attempting to quantify and automate influencer authenticity.
Although the SALG instrument is a useful tool to examine the association between course design and student learning gains, these self-report measures are limited by the qualitative subjective experience of each individual that we are attempting to quantify.
Few studies have described the attributable risk of adverse health effects from indoor sources of particles, but some are attempting to quantify the relative contributions of indoor and outdoor particulate matter (and other toxins) in greater detail, to aid risk and exposure models (Weisel et al. 2005).
They've been attempting to quantify the art.
The researchers were attempting to quantify the feeling of loneliness — a sense of not having meaningful contact with others, accompanied by painful distress.
Before they arrived at F&ES two years ago, graduate students Bessie Schwarz and Beth Tellman each worked briefly for the Natural Capital Project, a national coalition that is attempting to quantify the value that nature has for people.
By providing ranges rather than a specific rank, the NRC is attempting to quantify the substantial uncertainty in ranking highly diverse programs.
Current research is attempting to quantify spatial-temporal patterns of land use dynamics and fragmentation of forests using temporal remote sensing data.
They're attempting to quantify — and, they claim, enhance — cognition by building a sensor-based data visualisation system that dynamically changes the complexity level of the data on display in response to human triggers, such as gestures, eye movements and heart rate.
