That's a different measure from the more commonly reported gross domestic product (GDP), but a better proxy for living standards.
"But they are at least a better proxy than birds or mammals, which is all we've had to go on before".
The reasonable assumption among broadcast producers is that if you want to know what Mr Brown is thinking, there is no better proxy than Mr Balls.
But a proxy is all they are.Dr Blei and Mr Gerrish are not claiming their method is necessarily a better proxy.
However, for the purpose of measuring how inequality affects a community it is also probably the least interesting yardstick of the three.Consumption inequality, though harder to measure, provides a better proxy of social welfare.
And the geographic size of a state would have been a better proxy for its economic potential in the early days of the Republic, when the United States was primarily an agrarian nation.
"Overall material well-being" should be our lodestar, the Cato report reads, and an individual's lifetime level of consumption is a better proxy for material well-being than how much money he makes in a given year.
David Owen, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, argues that investors should look at multi-factor productivity instead of labour productivity, because it is a better proxy for an economy's return on capital.
An even better proxy might be the number of retweets per follower.
Thus, the Mg II index provides a better proxy for solar EUV/FUV radiation than the F10.7 index.
Citations are a better proxy for how much impact a paper is having, but for young scientists and interdisciplinary awards, this metric also has several limitations.
