The phrase "are needed to convincingly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing requirements or necessities for achieving a convincing argument or presentation.
Example: "Several key pieces of evidence are needed to convincingly support the theory."
Alternatives: "are required to persuasively" or "are essential to effectively".
Referees may request additional information, analyses or experiments when they are needed to convincingly support the data.
Since this was a pilot study with several limitations, such as a small sample size and absence of a control treatment and appropriate follow-up, further studies that include a randomized design, larger sample sizes, and more detailed data about the subjects are needed to convincingly show the effects of electroacupuncture at abdominal meridian points on overweight and obese patients.
The latter possibility is more difficult to ascertain in the in vivo situation and clearly more studies are needed to convincingly show that blockade of cytokines alter survival of eosinophils in vivo, as demonstrated in vitro.
The use of ribavirin has also been explored in several cases of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever [13], but larger numbers of patients are needed to convincingly demonstrate efficacy.
Therefore, more data are needed to convincingly demonstrate the conclusions of this work.
Future work using reciprocal crosses from the same subspecies is needed to convincingly demonstrate the extent of PSGE within honey bees.
Overall, the metabolic profile of the PEX13 brain mutants suggests that (accumulated) VLCFA is not a major cause of disease pathology in these animals, although measurement at earlier developmental time-points would be needed to convincingly demonstrate this claim.
Though the significance of finding a correlation in patient biopsies cannot be underestimated, evidence from studies at the cellular level is needed to convincingly establish the relationship between Braf and p300.
In light of this overlapping pathology and diagnostic uncertainty, CSF biomarker profiles and amyloid imaging will likely be needed to convincingly demonstrate frontal variant AD in a cohort large enough to perform the necessary neuropsychological, imaging, and genetic studies to define this subtype.
