The phrase "a proxy for successful" is not entirely correct as it lacks a noun to complete the thought.
You can use it when discussing a substitute or stand-in that represents success in a particular context.
Example: "In this study, the number of new clients served as a proxy for successful business growth."
Alternatives: "a substitute for success" or "an indicator of success."
As mentioned before, prediction accuracy was in turn used as a proxy for successful event impact estimation capability.
We counted the number of plates that had moving cross-progeny, as a proxy for successful sperm release.
Consequently, it seems that the adoption of independence in ADLs as a proxy for successful ageing would not be an absurd notion.
To determine if, in C. elegans, a longer refractory period might increase the amount of sperm transferred, we counted the number of sired progeny as a proxy for successful ejaculation.
We have measured medication prescription in general practice six months after the chest pain clinic visit, as a proxy for successful commencement or recommendation of long term secondary prevention medication at the time of the clinic.
Current employment status serves as a poor proxy for successful job performance".
It's a proxy for: Were we successful at provoking you?
Although the literature supports Insightful Practice as a proxy measure for successful performance improvement, [ 7, 17– 19] we were unable to test construct validity within this study.
9 In addition, although the literature supports insightful practice as a proxy measure for successful performance improvement, 11 14 the construct validity of this was not possible to test within this study.
It's a proxy for one kind of success; and it actually does make them more successful in some ways.
To identify genes required for pharynx regeneration, we performed an RNAi screen of 356 genes upregulated after amputation, using successful feeding as a proxy for regeneration.
