The phrase "a suitable proxy for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a substitute or representative that can stand in for something else in a specific context.
Example: "In this study, we found that the average temperature can serve as a suitable proxy for overall climate change trends."
Alternatives: "an appropriate substitute for" or "a valid representative of".
These results show that changes in accessibility are a suitable proxy for chromatin changes.
Sunshine duration has been shown to be a suitable proxy for solar irradiance due to the linear relationship between both parameters46,62.
We conclude that small-molecule substrates are not a suitable proxy for determining the pH profiles of family 11 xylanases.
The study, published today in Science, finds that "self-reported population ancestry likely provides a suitable proxy for genetic ancestry". In other words, someone saying he is of European ancestry will have genetic similarities to other Europeans.
This article details how field knowledge of the spectral properties of Sphagnum spp., airborne remote sensing data and a range of image analysis approaches, may be combined to provide a suitable proxy for near-surface wetness.
We conclude that skin temperature is not a suitable proxy for human heat exposure, and that spatial epidemiology studies could benefit from mapping apparent temperature, using an approach similar to the one reported here, to better quantify differences in heat exposure that exist across an urban landscape.
In summary, the Spanish training set provides a very suitable proxy for European variation as a whole, while the more restricted comparison of the Moroccan training set with the Algerian Mozabite indicates much higher divergence although this is likely to partly reflect differences in levels of admixture with Europe and the character of the two North African regions.
Hence, education level may be a less suitable proxy for socioeconomic status in older participants.
As argued above, "crude deaths" may be a less suitable proxy for health care needs in low-income country settings in the context of health workforce planning.
For SNPs where no proxy was provided, we investigated all genotyped SNPs within 500 kb for LD with r2≥0.4 for a suitable proxy SNP.
Our design proposal consists of jointly deciding on (i) the number and placement of proxy servers on a given set of potential nodes, (ii) replicating content on the proxy servers, and (iii) routing the requests for the content to a suitable proxy server such that the total cost of distribution is minimized.
