The phrase "as explanatory data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to data that serves to clarify or provide additional information about a subject.
Example: "The results of the survey were presented as explanatory data to help the audience understand the trends."
Alternatives: "as clarifying information" or "as illustrative data".
In addition, with the regression approach, CCA is implemented with the basic structure of hypothesis-oriented study: hypothesis can be usually decomposed into two parts, the main part and its biological context, which are analysed by CCA as the main and explanatory data.
If a concept cannot be replicated or sufficient explanatory data developed, it will be rejected, as was the theory of cold fusion.
Indeed the mayor's management report, voluminous as it is, is often short on explanatory data, breakdowns of facts and figures by neighborhood and performance measures from random agencies.
His graphics are often for explanatory data analysis -- not the same as crisp, clear communication".
This study is designed as explanatory and its data gathering method is questionnaire.
Classification and Regression Trees (CART) were adopted to investigate importance of topography, lithology and vegetation for the spatial distribution of exchangeable K and Mg and with the intention to develop models that regionalize the point observations using digital terrain data as explanatory variables.
However, in our alternative empirical analysis that used simple TFP growth data as explanatory variables, the communication sector generated positive innovation forward linkages.
In Beck et al. (2009) the dependent variable is regional inflation and they use the respective regional data as explanatory variables.
In our analysis, the dependent variable is the common factor obtained from the PANIC analysis of Spanish provincial inflation and we will use average national data as explanatory variables.
