The phrase "attributable instead to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a certain outcome or effect is due to a different cause than what was previously suggested.
Example: "The decline in sales was attributable instead to a lack of marketing efforts rather than the economic downturn."
Alternatives: "due instead to" or "ascribable instead to".
The current paralysis of our political system is not attributable to constitutional flaws but instead to the failure of both parties to approach crucial issues with the same spirit of compromise that made the nation possible.
Therefore, the declining deadliness of war in relative terms may be attributable not to more international cooperation, but instead to humans' finding more constructive ways to express the urge to fight and compete.
In the statistical analysis the quality of a manuscript was controlled for to prevent favorable reviewers' ratings from being attributable to quality instead of to the bias variable.
However, comparisons falling within the null distribution of βMNTD (|βNTI|<+2) indicate that the observed difference in community composition is not the result of deterministic selection and are instead attributable to stochastic assembly63.
(At the same time, Ms. Skipton said, bathing with soap in water that is too soft may leave skin feeling somewhat slippery. That, however, is generally not the result of soap being left on the skin, but is instead attributable to the absence of any soap curd remaining).
These deaths are instead attributable to the extreme stress of being shaken awake by a violent earthquake.
Most of these findings were instead attributable to the country of origin, with children in Turkey and South Africa being less generous.
DRB1*1501 accounted for all but 7 of the DRB1*15 occurrences among the controls and 4 of the IPF patients, and these exceptions were instead attributable to DRB1*1502.
The differences in QoL between the groups were not attributable to ethnicity; instead they resulted from differences in the socioeconomic and life-burden factors.
