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The phrase "a direct proxy for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a representative or substitute that closely reflects or stands in for something else.
Example: "In this study, the survey results serve as a direct proxy for public opinion on the issue."
Alternatives: "an exact substitute for" or "a clear representation of".
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Nevertheless, it should be noted that fibroblast period measures are not a direct proxy for measures of physiological period: for some subjects, considerable differences between the two were observed, and physiological period differences between sighted and blind subjects were absent entirely in fibroblasts.
However, we caution that attendance is not a direct proxy for the effects of instruction.
Leaf rank is unlikely to be used extensively as a direct proxy for better-defined measurements like areole area.
This can be attributed to the general consensus that income is a direct proxy for affordability of foods (Turrell et al., 2003; Kant & Graubard, 2007).
These studies use temporal variability as a direct proxy for population vulnerability, where population variability measures are calculated from time series data (std logN, CV).
Even though Z-scores are not typically used in the presentation of qPCR data, they should be interpreted as a direct proxy for the mRNA levels measured in the sample.
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Lacking any direct proxy for workers' effort and paid-for training in our panel dataset, our indirect strategy is to embed these variables into firms' TFP, which can then be estimated from the available data on their output and inputs.
First, it employs a more direct proxy for utility.
For every successful business in the U.S., there is most likely a direct proxy in China -- some only fundamentally similar, others more blatantly so.
With a directed proxy, the shareholder tells the proxy holder to vote for specific candidates.
Systematic counts along transects of the resting platforms, or 'nests', that orangutans build have therefore been used as predictors, or as direct proxies, for population density.
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