Of course, a defendant's posture in the courtroom is an imperfect proxy for his state of mind.
A survey of 43 countries, published on October 30th, found that people in emerging markets are within a whisker of expressing the same level of satisfaction with their lives as people in rich countries.If income is an imperfect proxy for quality of life, are there any plausible alternatives?
This is an imperfect proxy of not having family members living abroad because not receiving remittances does not imply that they do not have relatives abroad.
Although the researchers acknowledge that rodents are an imperfect proxy for human mood disorders, they did observe that the animals' symptoms markedly improved; studies of their brains also revealed normal numbers of spines.
13 Inclusion in the East German sample is an imperfect proxy for socialization (and, for the older cohorts, the experience of family life) if the very different economic and social environment of East Germany before reunification in 1989.
36We are aware that this is an imperfect proxy of this phenomenon: as noted in Section 3.2, we could not further verify whether workers and firms already had a previous informal employment relationship because a direct question to this issue had a rejection rate of more than 90%.
The smallest spatial unit in the CBP data is zip code, and while zip code is an imperfect proxy for neighborhood, it allows us to approximate intra-county variation in access to resources and other important neighborhood economic forces (Murphy and Wallace, 2010; Small and McDermott, 2006).
Our measure of education is an imperfect proxy for socioeconomic status, but may be important in its own right.
From a sociological perspective, our bibliometric approach may have only limited value because citations are an imperfect proxy for the actual usage of research results.
