The phrase "are important for explaining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the significance of certain factors or elements in providing clarity or understanding about a topic.
Example: "The historical context and cultural influences are important for explaining the evolution of the art movement."
Alternatives: "are crucial for clarifying" or "play a key role in elucidating".
Our results indicate that life-history characteristics, which include dispersal characters, are important for explaining the species scarcity in younger stands.
It was concluded that changes in malaria mosquito densities and land use are important for explaining differences in malaria transmission between areas, but that other factors such as human movement and behavior, and socioeconomic conditions probably also play a role in the transmission of malaria in Chiang Mai province.
Three factors are important for explaining the SSS volume in the dry bulk sector, as shown in Table 6.
Based on our regression analysis, we observe that regional innovation system (RIS) variables are important for explaining the region's ability to attract Skattefunn funding.
They only include rudimental information on socio-economic characteristics of the household and its members which are important for explaining the utilization of dental services.
Demographic factors are important for explaining the level of inequality (because of the different fractions of non-income earners in the poorest and richest quintiles) but are less important as determinants of changes in inequality.
This relative variable importance is the probability that a particular variable is important for explaining observed differences in exam performance.
Development of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is important for explaining symptoms and designing management.
I use a simple model to interpret the empirical results and extrapolate to other similar policies, finding that a relaxation of debt-to-income restrictions is important for explaining the 2000s housing boom.
In addition, our previous method (Huang et al., 2013) based on the shift of plane layer atoms to generate disordered vacancies is extended in this paper to the shift of the zigzag plane layer of atoms, which is important for explaining the cubic symmetry of vacancy-disordered phases.
