The phrase "a first measure of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing an initial assessment or evaluation of something, often in a research or analytical context.
Example: "The study provides a first measure of the impact of climate change on local biodiversity."
Alternatives: "an initial assessment of" or "a preliminary evaluation of".
Other important early contributions to this literature include Bresnahan and Salop (1986), which develops a first measure of this concept, the "MHHI", and O'Brien and Salop (2000), which establishes a formal connection between common ownership and prices under different forms of competition (Cournot and Bertrand).
Uncertainty and demographics As a first measure of individual forecast uncertainty I consider the inter-quartile range.
As a first measure of impact of tribes on mobility, we aggregated the mobility network between communities.
Therefore, rearranging the job array such that jobs with long execution times are started right at the beginning will be a first measure of increasing the job array performance.
In order to obtain a first measure of the performance, we determined the probability of recovering all frames in a GOP with respect to the total number of GOPs transmitted.
A first measure of survival was performed 18 hours after injection, a time at which healthy insect larvae should survive.
The reliability and validity of physical activity measurements were assessed among a random sample of 536 participants by a second measure of physical activity ∼10 weeks after the first measure.
A third measure of the relevance of Queue's articles comes from our clipping service for ACM publications from the second half of 2004.
In this paper, we examine use of the top scintillator hodoscope detector to provide a second measure of the cosmic ray charge and, thus, improve the ATIC charge identification.
Grams of urine loss per pad (GPP) provided a third measure of incontinence.
Twitter follower counts served as a second measure of social capital to augment LinkedIn.
