That size, scale and a professional letterhead are an acceptable proxy for ethics.
As Cullinan says: "We have been conned into believing that economic prosperity (usually defined by GDP) is an acceptable proxy for what we really want - and it isn't.
They concluded that self-report of symptoms was an acceptable proxy measure of the presence of infectious diseases.
However, because the data indicated a fairly stable exposure level throughout the study period, duration of employment was an acceptable proxy measure for relative cumulated dose.
Thus, we are reasonably confident that for this panel study, the central-site exposure is an acceptable proxy for residential exposure of coarse PM.
12 Our study provides evidence that breast tumor-derived genotypes are an acceptable proxy for germline genotypes when more suitable DNA sources are not available.
Distance from the plant is an acceptable proxy for exposure when air quality information is unavailable, particularly when residential history and other factors such as prevailing wind direction are also taken into account [ 36].
We have argued that for the global null that no locus is associated, strong control of FWER is an acceptable proxy for weak control, FDR or Bayes factor approaches.
According to the WGO diagnostic protocol, tTG are an acceptable proxy of the EMA antibodies, especially in countries with limited resources (" The EMA test requires expert observers, and ELISA tests for detecting tTG antibodies should therefore be recommended in settings with low expertise")[ 11].
In the absence of a notation for the low and high temperatures, an average of the hourly temperatures that are transmitted by automated stations is deemed an acceptable proxy for the average daily, monthly, and annual temperature.
