Sentence examples for inappropriate proxy from inspiring English sources

Some scholars have criticized the use of census tracts or other administrative boundaries as an inappropriate proxy for neighborhoods (Rengert et al. 2005; Rengert and Lockwood 2009).

A subsequent 2010 pact resulted in a promise by the church to at least prevent inappropriate proxy baptism requests for Holocaust victims -- although not of all Jews.

Our assessment is that while the method is powerful, the results are often over-interpreted or used as an inappropriate proxy for more quantitative methods.

Two other trials of chemotherapy in the second/subsequent-line treatment vs supportive care for of metastatic CRC (Barni et al, 1995; Rao et al, 2004) were considered inappropriate proxies in this analysis as the supportive care arms comprised BSC alone and no ASC.

We had an inappropriate relationship with immigration enforcement whereby, by proxy, we were helping to kick people out of the country.

Whatever you decide, Wetle adds, "clearly articulated advanced care planning, including living wills and designation of health care proxies, reduce the risk of inappropriate or unwanted interventions".

Taking data from baseline measurements as a proxy for follow-up would be inappropriate, as a positive STI test result could influence sexual risk behavior 17, 18.

Besides which, if a company believes that the SEC uniform rule is inappropriate for them it can always design its own proxy access rule that conforms to whatever minimal protections are provided by the publicly ordered proxy access regime.

Using short stay unplanned admissions as a proxy indicator for identifying minor problems assumes that the admission was inappropriate.

We applied the US FDA pregnancy-risk categories as a proxy measure of prescribing appropriateness, with FDA Category D and X medications considered inappropriate.

First, the administratively defined boundaries used as a proxy for neighbourhoods in this study may non-differentially misclassify individuals into an inappropriate administrative boundary, which can generate information biases and reduce the validity of analyses.