The phrase "a convenient proxy for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a substitute or stand-in that simplifies or represents something else in a practical way.
Example: "In this study, we used average income as a convenient proxy for overall economic well-being."
Alternatives: "a useful substitute for" or "an effective stand-in for".
It is a convenient proxy for a more general debate on income inequalities.
Thus a critical contour of overpressure (CoP) is a convenient proxy for risk.
What the brunch-blaming brigade seems to miss is that this victim-blaming approach is as old as the hills, a convenient proxy for justifying a society that remains deeply unequal.
In the present framework, a convenient proxy for the available portion of phase space is the number of attractors belonging to the TES.
Frequent use served as a convenient proxy for long term chronic use.
Dissaving is potentially a convenient proxy for catastrophic costs that does not require usage of complex patient cost questionnaires.
In ecological and evolutionary studies, fruit set has often been considered a convenient proxy of fitness (e.g. [ 13]).
Thus, T is only a mathematically convenient proxy for the ARG-size of our sample of size 2, since T ~ G γ1, γ2) does not explicitly capture the distribution of ARG-size for intermediate levels of intra-locus recombination among sites at our locus.
These observations prompted us to assess whether EfFIC is competent for AMPylation, using autoAMPylation as a convenient proxy in the absence of a known physiological target (reviewed in ref. 21).
Overall, the history of integrase/transposase research suggests that the reverse reaction can be a useful and convenient proxy for the forward reaction, but this nonetheless calls for some caution in interpretation.
For the full 10.5 years, the Lehman Brothers STRIPS 20-25 gained 154.1%, compared with 79.8% for the Lehman Aggregate, 102.2% for long-term treasury bonds a convenient proxy for which is the iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treas Bond –and 108.5% for the long-term bond index.
