The phrase "as a proxy for future" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a substitute or stand-in for something that is anticipated or expected in the future.
Example: "The current trends in technology can serve as a proxy for future developments in the industry."
Alternatives: "as a substitute for future" or "as a stand-in for future".
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft -- seen as a proxy for future business spending -- fell 0.4percentt.
In addition, the investigation of urban phenology allows an estimation of future phenology from current information since cities with their amplified temperatures may serve as a proxy for future conditions.
Instead, they tend to use current or easily estimated, late-stage, cash flows as a proxy for future cash flows, presumably because firms that have learned to develop and commercialize new drugs will continue to do so at the same rate as in the past (Löfqvist, 2009).
Real options theory, unlike financial options theory, uses the value of the underlying asset (in this case, biopharma drugs under development/in the corporate pipeline) as a proxy for future cash flows and then estimates a value based on the time remaining for the "option" to expire (called the strike date) and the risk that the event (e.g., FDA approval and commercialization) will not take place.
The ensuing hedonic reaction during this simulation could act as a proxy for future hedonic reactions, enhancing the predicted pleasure associated with the event.
Orders for nonmilitary capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for future investment, jumped 3.2percentt last month after a 2.5percentt decline.
In other words, the Delphi study outputs were used as a proxy for the future supply of educational technology for the next 4 years, whereas the analysis of the network use was used to project the future demand for educational technology by Plan Ceibal's users.
As PRII director explained: "If you're using a generational snapshot today as a proxy for the future, it is is safe to say that religious progressives hold a stronger appeal among Millennials".
The estimates of diabetes prevalence reported in this paper are believed to be more realistic compared with the estimates reported by the IDF and the Global prevalence of diabetes estimates which were critiqued for under estimating the prevalence of diabetes, probably as a result of using only demographic trends and urbanisation as a proxy for diabetes future incidence.
Economists demonstrated that the forward rate could serve as a useful proxy for future spot exchange rates between currencies with liquidity premia that average out to zero during the onset of floating exchange rate regimes in the 1970s.
