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The phrase "a proxy for center" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate that something serves as a substitute or representative for a central point or concept.
Example: "In this study, the average income is used as a proxy for center in assessing economic stability."
Alternatives: "a substitute for center" or "a stand-in for center".
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Thus, latitude in this context was used as a proxy for center to gain statistical power (continuous versus nominal scale).
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To determine if self-reported balance symptoms can be used as a proxy for measures of the center of pressure (COP) to identify balance deficits in a group of concussed adolescents.
In addition, the fixed-effects models help resolve the measurement challenges of using the CBHI use rate as a proxy for CBHI coverage by health center because the fixed-effects models consider only the within-variation in each health center.
We were able to confirm that birth registration rates in both datasets coincide, being 22percentt for children under the age of 5. Health centers may not coincide with immunization centers, but they may serve as a proxy for the actual location of immunization centers, as they generally include a unit devoted to immunizations.
Because educational opportunities vary greatly within the catchment area, we use a measure of distance from town center as a proxy for rural or urban residence.
We used the HDI as a proxy for identifying socioeconomic differences across the centers.
In this paper, we use a sociological approach to highlight the connections or lack thereof between bioethics researchers and research centers as a proxy for examining the ways in which bioethics scholarship is 'performed' around the world.
We viewed calls to poison centers as a proxy for true incidence and although we expected trends in both calls and true incidence to be similar, it is likely that the number of calls per year grossly underestimated the true incidence.
Furthermore, several pediatric studies have examined initial trauma center gases as a proxy for prehospital and IFT ventilation [8 10, 16, 19].
It should also be kept in mind that volume is a proxy for quality and cannot fully explain differences between centers.
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