Sentence examples for as a reasonable proxy from inspiring English sources

Petrol consumption used to serve as a reasonable proxy for road use, satisfying the "user pays" principle for road funding.

We concluded that people׳s assessments on the basis of their aesthetic preferences may serve as a reasonable proxy for mapping recreation demand.

If the Blackstone Group's third-quarter results can serve as a reasonable proxy for the private equity industry, then its brethren will have a lot of good news to share with investors.

A nearly linear relationship was found between H1 and the percentage root mean square error (RMSE) increase due to heterogeneity, establishing H1 as a "reasonable proxy" of quantile error.

Most social activities happen in the city center and this temperature should serve as a reasonable proxy.

Self-reported data can serve as a reasonable proxy for measuring the tendency to adopt particular driving patterns, including the tendency to engage in violations.

However, use of self-reported doctor diagnosed OA appears to be a reasonable proxy for OA, as JSN was more common in participants reporting doctor-diagnosed OA at the hips and knees (hips OR 2.3, p < 0.001; knees OR 1.6, p = 0.023), and osteophytes more common in participants reporting knee (OR 4.10, p < 0.001), but not hip OA ORR 0.94, p = 0.83).

As long as annotation of non-coding elements is still sparse, sequence conservation might be a reasonable proxy for an analysis similar to the one presented here.

Its size makes EA a reasonable proxy for the industry as whole.

Finally, we assumed that the infant mortality rate was a reasonable proxy for health index as in prior studies [ 23].

Further investigation on larger populations is warranted but HRQL tools appear to be a reasonable proxy for healthcare needs, as they identify the majority of needs in patients with coronary disease, an observation not previously reported in this patient group.