The phrase "alternative indicator" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a different measure or sign that provides information or insight about a particular situation or condition.
Example: "In our analysis, we found that the alternative indicator provided a more accurate reflection of market trends than the traditional metrics."
Alternatives: "substitute measure" or "different sign".
Confidence intervals are also reported as an alternative indicator of significance indicating that the population mean will fall within the respective range in 95%% of samples.
Now the fashion world has finally offered up an alternative indicator of the country's economic state.
An alternative indicator should replace capacity and resistance to make online SoH diagnosis more manageable.
Amidst widespread distrust of official statistics, The Economist proposed it in 1992 as an alternative indicator of economic activity.
A DECADE ago The Economist proposed the R-word index: an alternative indicator of economic activity at a time of widespread distrust of official British statistics.
This research forwards 'aqueous productivity' (AP) as an alternative indicator that addresses some inherent limitations in the WP approach and enhances productivity estimates for water in integrated systems.
D1 can be used as an alternative indicator to assess the rutting resistance of mixtures, particularly for the polymer modified asphalt mixtures.
It was the unreliability of economic forecasts, along with distrust of many official statistics, that prompted The Economist in the early 1990s to invent its R-word index as an alternative indicator of economic activity.
An alternative indicator points to a slowing world economyFURTHER economic strife may be ahead as a swathe of recently released data points to a slowdown in the world economy.
Miller M, Wong WK, Wu J, Cavenett S, Daniels L, Crotty M. Upper-arm anthropometry: an alternative indicator of nutritional health to body mass index in unilateral lower-extremity amputees?
