Sentence examples for a rough proxy for from inspiring English sources

It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

Those imbalances are a rough proxy for capital flight.

Current accounts are a rough proxy for the economic health of eurozone states.

And we are clearly not fixing the problem of prisoner under-education if the statistics on prisoner literacy – a rough proxy for high school education – are any indication.

But measures of income inequality are misleading because an individual's income is, at best, a rough proxy for his or her real economic wellbeing.

Between 2008 and 2014 nominal GDP, a rough proxy for an economy's capacity to repay debts, fell by 22%, much more than any other European invalid.

Here, synonymous (Ks) substitution rates are used as a rough proxy of duplication age.

The relative intensity of bands can provide a rough proxy of the proportional abundance of those taxa in the community.

Furthermore, we observed that body size has no effect, although we admit that it represents only a very rough proxy for population size estimates.

The forward scatter measurements are only a very rough proxy for cell size, and the measurements of WGA intensity (which should be indicative for bud scars) were not corrected for the background fluorescence.

As a rough proxy, look at President Bush's poll numbers.