Diet and fish consumption may be a proxy for factors that have effect on mental well-being particularly in men.
In this work, funniness may be a proxy for something else entirely.
However, the association of genetic variants in children with early-onset diseases such as ALL may be a proxy for parental effects.
It is now recognized that water is not exclusive to the Earth but, rather, is a major constituent of the matter in the universe and may be a proxy for life in other planets as well.
It measures, in other words, the gap between poor people and the local typical household.* It may be a proxy for how plausible it would be for a girl from a low-income household to rise into the middle class.
This may be an excuse: children of foreign parents raised in Germany usually speak German better than the ancestral language (though language may be a proxy for better-founded worries about generally poor schooling).
Organoids may be a proxy for studying human development with fetal tissue, but they're not entirely clear of controversy.
In TopGear.com-speak, "somewhat extroverted" may be a proxy for "vulgarian", but that's a discussion for another time.
In addition, our sub-sample analysis alleviates the concern that public pension ownership may be a proxy for ATPs.
This information may be a proxy for relational and social capital that the innovator entrepreneur has been able to accumulate in his own environment.
Women's education may be a proxy for women's autonomy; an important determinant of women's ability to make strategic life choices [27, 28].
