"lines of analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence such as: "My report uses three lines of analysis to explore the effects of climate change." You can use this phrase when you are talking about a particular method of studying something.
I pursue several parallel lines of analysis.
However, they tend to offer three lines of analysis in explaining them.
Likewise, those dense passages of Shakespeare -- seemingly doomed to exist only as bright, fleeting verbal dazzlers delivered from a rickety, flammable stage -- have been lovingly disassembled and scrutinized, word by word, by critics like Kermode, and recently spun through computer concordances and databases into lines of analysis unthinkable to the master who produced them.
In one of the new lines of analysis coming out of this project, the first round of results at the level of "commuting zones" are being redone at a more detailed level (e.g., census block level), thus allowing for even better inferences about the effects of place.
Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon take approaches to this period that combine political, economic, and social-cultural lines of analysis.
But one of the more interesting lines of analysis I've heard has less to do with software glitches than with a basic management failure one that is all too common, in business as well as government.
Stacey offers a second line of analysis on the Canadians' failure to advance to Line Oak, suggesting that difficulties encountered by the British 3rd Infantry Division on Sword caused Dempsey to halt the advance of the entire British Second Army.
An influential line of analysis points to that conclusion.
seemed surprised by Hezbollah's defensive tactics, this line of analysis goes.
But that line of analysis may miss the point.
But this line of analysis cannot account for the most modern and rich country of them all.
