The phrase "assessing the relation between" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or analysis of the connection or correlation between two or more entities, concepts, or variables.
Example: "The study focuses on assessing the relation between diet and mental health outcomes in adolescents."
Alternatives: "evaluating the connection between" or "analyzing the relationship between".
Results of epidemiological studies, assessing the relation between smoking and breast cancer, have been inconclusive.
Accordingly, when managers are risk-averse, it is important to jointly consider both portfolio delta and portfolio vega when assessing the relation between equity incentives and misreporting.
Research assessing the relation between government health expenditure and development assistance for health channelled to governments (DAH-G) has produced contradictory conclusions.
There has been no air pollution cohort study in China examining the long-term effects of air pollution, nor any published Chinese data assessing the relation between air pollution and cardiovascular morbidity and sub-clinical indicators.
The present paper reviews and critiques studies assessing the relation between sleep patterns, sleep quality, and school of performance of adolescents attending middle school, high school, and/or college.
Due to the constrained sample size while only studying females, Mann-Whitney U tests (exact) were used in assessing the relation between menstrual cycle-phase and CPM-scores.
We sought to assess the relation between complications related to surgical technique and outcomes after esophagogastrectomy for cancer.
In the first study, the researchers assessed the relation between future self-continuity and self-reported health.
The resulting parameterization was then used to assess the relation between volumetric and shear relaxation.
Objective: To assess the relation between cognitive and ambulatory abilities in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients.
We assessed the relation between duration of lactation and maternal incident myocardial infarction.
