The phrase "associated this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a connection or relationship between something and the subject being discussed.
Example: "The researchers associated this finding with previous studies on the same topic."
Alternatives: "linked this" or "connected this".
If paternal smoking is also associated, this supports the hypothesis that the observed association for maternal smoking during pregnancy is not causal but the result of confounding factors.
Before arriving here, I associated this Californian coastal town with a naff 1980s soap, all big hair and heightened emotions.
Freud told me he associated this painting with one of the most depressing periods of his life.
Looking back, I always associated this incident with childhood tactlessness, but it would provide a context for something that would happen to me years later.
Using these techniques, the author associated this novel with the so-called novela de la mirada or nouveau roman.
Since the 5th century ce, major texts have associated this achievement with the fourth ashrama, or stage of life, but initially it was not so, and it is uncertain what proportion of sadhus have ever actually exemplified this ideal.
Opponents of censorship say they are doubly appalled because they associated this kind of heavy-handed approach more with the previous regime of Gen. Pervez Musharraf than with the current government of President Asif Ali Zardari.
c. 429), for their emphasis on the human personhood in Christ and associated this teaching with the heresy of Nestorius, the 5th-century patriarch of Constantinople, and with their anti-Origenist opponents.
The authors associated this finding to scleral thinning [6].
And we have associated this value with a medium value of wind speed for each class.
We associated this effect to the voltage and light dependence of charge accumulation in the QW region.
