Sentence examples for level of proxy from inspiring English sources

We used propensity score matching and created matched pairs (n = 133) between the trauma and control groups to correct for observed imbalances in the covariate distributions (age and gender of child, marital status and education level of proxy; see Table  1) [ 30].

Why then are the greatest levels of proxy discriminatory responses (unwillingness to have a person with GAD marry into the family 36%) over double that of the most highly endorsed anxiety stigma item (unstable - 16.7%)?

Studies have shown that adolescent boys and those experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage had significantly lower levels of proxy efficacy when compared with adolescent girls and more advantaged adolescents, respectively [ 52].

We identify conditions under which using a proxy provides significant or marginal performance gain by investigating factors including initial window size, congestion level of the proxy, and the level of asymmetry between the segments segregated by the proxy.

The algorithm operates at a deep level of abstraction, by proxy rather than directly.

This could have contributed to a higher level of concordance between proxy response and medical records.

We used the level of education as proxy indicator of socio-economic status because information on income was not available.

The level of agreement between proxy reports and children's self reports has also been found to vary between different aspects of HRQoL [ 3, 4, 6].

We used length of schooling and level of education as proxies for social class.

The pooling of data across countries may be seen as a limitation as there were substantial variations in agreement between countries, but it may also be a strength as it increase the sample size and protects against the tendency towards report of lower overall levels of patient-proxy agreement shown in smaller studies [ 15].

Still, self-rated health has been shown to be consistently associated with health behaviours [ 31, 32] and outcomes in several studies, and in our multivariate analyses we systematically adjusted for educational level (a proxy of sociodemographic status).