The phrase "a better proxy" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing the effectiveness or suitability of one thing as a representative or substitute for another.
Example: "In this study, we found that using a better proxy for economic growth led to more accurate predictions."
Alternatives: "a more accurate substitute" or "a superior representative".
That's a different measure from the more commonly reported gross domestic product (GDP), but a better proxy for living standards.
"But they are at least a better proxy than birds or mammals, which is all we've had to go on before".
But a proxy is all they are.Dr Blei and Mr Gerrish are not claiming their method is necessarily a better proxy.
However, for the purpose of measuring how inequality affects a community it is also probably the least interesting yardstick of the three.Consumption inequality, though harder to measure, provides a better proxy of social welfare.
And the geographic size of a state would have been a better proxy for its economic potential in the early days of the Republic, when the United States was primarily an agrarian nation.
"Overall material well-being" should be our lodestar, the Cato report reads, and an individual's lifetime level of consumption is a better proxy for material well-being than how much money he makes in a given year.
David Owen, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, argues that investors should look at multi-factor productivity instead of labour productivity, because it is a better proxy for an economy's return on capital.
Now take the time machine forward four years to 2008, the election which made it clear that the Reagan coalition was well and try finished: John McCain won 46 percent of the vote overall, just 49 percent of the $100,000-plus demographic … and just 46 percent of the $200,000-plus demographic, which thanks to inflation is probably a better proxy for making comparisons to the rich of 1988.
Thus, the Mg II index provides a better proxy for solar EUV/FUV radiation than the F10.7 index.
Citations are a better proxy for how much impact a paper is having, but for young scientists and interdisciplinary awards, this metric also has several limitations.
Fetal cerebroplacental ratio is emerging as a better proxy than birthweight for placental insufficiency and as a marker of fetal compromise at term.
