The phrase 'empirical attempt' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to an effort to solve a problem or answer a question by collecting and analyzing data. For example, "My empirical attempt to determine the best fertilizer for my tomato plants yielded positive results."
Conclusively, the most mentionable aspect of this study are the results of an empirical attempt to complement existing, mainly conceptual, literature on the role of zakah within entrepreneurial framework in alleviation of poverty.
A concerted empirical attempt to dissect effects of fishing from those of other factors is clearly warranted.
We have made an empirical attempt to corroborate results from the stable model on the basis of published fossil data on extinct mammalian body masses.
This strategy might provide in turn a first empirical attempt to correct for false positives as expected when a hierarchical structure exists among populations under study i.e. when some populations share a recent ancestry or there are barriers to gene flow between some of them [ 24].
Although researchers often claim that macro-level factors such as the welfare regime constellation or societal values impact fertility (and other demographic) behavior, there are few successful empirical attempts to empirically underpin these claims.
Few empirical attempts have been made to investigate the longitudinal impact of over- and undereducation, while a legitimate question is whether job allocation frictions diminish over an individual's lifecycle.
Anecdotes aside, there have been very few empirical attempts to establish the health consequences of care-giving in the Japanese context[ 18- 21].
While purely empirical attempts at genetic modifications have in some cases led to impressive success [ 27], these cases have provided the exceptions rather than the rule.
As one of the first empirical attempts to examine the potential confounding role of personality characteristics in the association between reports of interpersonal discrimination and mental health, our results suggest that personality-related characteristics may serve as potential confounders.
Few empirical attempts have incorporated both the health belief and social interactional models in researching oral health disparities, particularly in studying the underlying dimension of social distance in relation to the cause of under-use among vulnerable minority populations.
Surprisingly, only few empirical studies attempt to quantify this impact on a larger scale.
