The phrase "as preliminary analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial examination or assessment of data or information before a more detailed analysis is conducted.
Example: "As preliminary analysis, we found that the data trends indicate a significant increase in sales over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "as an initial assessment" or "as a first evaluation".
As preliminary analysis we performed a spectrogram of the temporal current line (see Figure 2) in order to visually justify the feature extraction approach described in the next section.
This part provides a brief overview of kinetic studies on thermal combustion, results of experiments carried out on a research and demonstration plant, discussion of computer simulations as well as preliminary analysis of the possibilities of the process intensification.
As preliminary analysis, we investigated the relationship between infant mortality and covariates without including PM in the model (Table 2).
As preliminary analysis showed no main effects of age and gender on similarity ratings, these variables were not included in the final models.
Twenty one interviews were conducted in total as preliminary analysis indicated that the data received from these interviews was sufficient to realise the study aim as common themes were reoccurring.
Unfortunately, VITAL-2 (n = 408) was terminated early as preliminary analysis demonstrated an excessive number of deaths (67 versus 47) and shorter median survival (12.2 months versus 14.1 months) for GVAX and docetaxel patients, respectively [ 23].
A detailed description of the observations and the data reduction as well as a preliminary analysis of the K-band data can be found in Tamura et al. (2006).
The selection of mRNAs was based on the analysis presented above as well as a preliminary analysis of translational activation (Tables S2 and S3).
The two working parties considered material from the gap analysis, the website search, as well as a preliminary analysis of emerging survey responses.
As much as the preliminary analysis of four organisms can be an indication, it appears that the situation differs in different organisms.
Details of the database structure as well as the preliminary analysis have been reported earlier [ 24]; the database and code necessary to generate it from alignments data are available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidminer.net/projects/acidminer
