"pilot analysis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any preliminary assessment or exploration of a particular data set. For example: The team conducted a pilot analysis of the data to develop an initial set of hypotheses.
Retrospective pilot analysis of hospital administrative data.
I chose ten samples to do the pilot analysis.
Our "virtual pilot" analysis had limitations: we could examine only three of the five quality elements.
A pilot analysis suggested ample evidence to support using reporter posture as a marker of fatigue, as Weisman suggested.
There was wide variation in use of observation across six common emergency conditions in Massachusetts in this pilot analysis.
Results 61 patients were included in this pilot analysis from the 1st January 2008 to 30 June 2015, age 66 ± 14 years, SAPS II 51 [IQR 38.75-64].
Proxy-based pilot analysis (PBPA) represents a promising approach for characterizing the uncertainty reduction and VOI from each of a set of feasible pilot projects.
The conclusion of this pilot analysis is that the variability within the Rotokawa Andesite is potentially too large to permit meaningful microstructural wing-crack modeling, but greater success could be achieved with laboratory-determined values for KIC.
In this paper, a pilot analysis of data supplied by International Certificated Body, relative to 16 olive oils produced in the Mediterranean area, was carried out to verify reproducibility and consistency of chemical analyses and organoleptic evaluations and therefore to highlight possible problems relative to quality grade classification.
In this pilot analysis of patients undergoing TAVR using MAC, the authors described the anesthetic agents used and sought to investigate the possible association of anesthetic agent choice with outcomes and the extent to which total weight and time-adjusted doses of anesthetics declined with increasing 10-year age increments.
This chapter focuses on the five most important goods and services examined by Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE) for human development and well-being: (1) timber production and consumption, (2) woodfuel production and consumption, (3) biodiversity, (4) watershed protection, and (5) carbon storage.
