The phrase "as a relevant proxy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a substitute or stand-in that is appropriate for a particular context or situation.
Example: "In this study, we will use survey responses as a relevant proxy for consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "as an appropriate substitute" or "as a suitable representative".
The first one deals with the testing of a simple and easy-to-obtain parameter as a relevant proxy for site amplification in order to replace the velocity contrast considered in the first section.
However, we believe that photographic activity by itself is an important component of visitor behavior and might serve as a relevant proxy for measuring city visual attractiveness for the visitors.
Even if the PHQ is considered as a relevant proxy for screening principal mental disorders in primary care [ 35, 36], structured clinical interviews are considered as the gold standard to assess DSM-IV criteria for their diagnostic.
Absent data on fetal distress in the birth file, we used male CD as a clinically relevant proxy for male fetal distress.
However, its use as the most relevant proxy was challenged by Kaplan and Zingales (1995) and other studies that followed on theoretical, as well as interpretative grounds.
Emergency Obstetric Care services have been described as a relevant and informative proxy indicator to assess services across the whole health care pyramid, as it encompasses care at both lower and upper levels of the health care system [ 12- 14].
As per the PMIPv6 protocol, the relevant proxy binding updates and acknowledgements were exchanged between the respective MAGs and LMA before the traffic flow to the MN.
Another question for the E.E.O.C. is whether it is acceptable for employers to use current employment as a proxy for relevant experience, or as an expedient to screen applicants.
For this purpose, we used the longitude coordinate of each of the relevant provinces as a spatial proxy.
For these reasons, benzene monitoring is a relevant candidate as a proxy measure of exposure to air pollutants related to traffic and to gasoline uses (Aguilera et al. 2008); moreover, it can be assessed by passive air samplers, which are light and relatively simple (Cocheo et al. 2000).
However, if the objective is only to identify individual positive selection sites within a gene, the a priori structural information is not likely to serve as a perfect proxy for those partitions most relevant to differences in selection pressures.
