The phrase "attributed a lack of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when explaining the cause or reason behind something lacking or missing. Example: The team's failure to win the championship can be attributed to a lack of teamwork and communication.
I know Anthony has previously attributed a lack of suitable jobs being available to his decision to commit crimes.
Although a number of previous studies have attributed a lack of immunogenicity to stem cells, others have shown significant lysis of these cells by the cytotoxic immune effectors [4], [6], [7].
In relation, some parents attributed a lack of parental encouragement to not knowing how much PA children should do, and a fear of working children too hard or them becoming too tired.
These were, in general, the commenters who were also most likely to attribute a lack of malice to Grandma.
He said people who attribute a lack of identification to sheer laziness have no idea what it's like being young and poor and just released from jail.
We attribute a lack of sensitivity of the assay to the low physiological level of invasive Salmonella organisms in the blood.
As such, it was difficult to attribute a lack of between-group differences to the intervention not being effective and not simply a type II statistical error.
These reviews attribute a lack of comparability between results to differences in sample processing methods and storage conditions, and in techniques for both the extraction and quantification.
Attributing a lack of evolutionary response to such mechanistic constraints is a formidable logistical challenge, requiring sophisticated experimental work to tease apart the genetic underpinnings of adaptive responses, or the lack thereof (Carroll et al. 2005).
