Sentence examples for plausible proxy from inspiring English sources

The point of such experiments is that an animal's ability to discriminate between different kinds of art is a plausible proxy for how complex and sophisticated its vision is.

As described above, several groups [22], [23], [31] have suggested that rotational stiffness K is a plausible proxy for the distance d between the whisker base and the point of object contact.

Finding no effect of phenotype (data not shown), we opted to characterize this variable by the number of organ systems affected, as a plausible proxy for severity.

The population enumerated in the area surrounding each monitored well provides a plausible proxy for sources such as latrines because population and latrine density are closely related throughout rural Bangladesh.

Exposure variables were investigated in separate models where all models were run including all children (N = 9,782) and including only children whose 24HDR were classified as plausible proxy-reports (N = 8,544).

These indices would appear to be both internally consistent and plausible proxies for the underlying process es -of-care which, in concert with process es -of-caretics, determine the shaprocess es -of-carer descriptor hazard of discharge.

The correlation between exposure variables (energy intake, daily food intake and energy density of foods) was tested in the full sample and in the subsample of plausible energy proxy-reports only.

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.

In the bootstrapping procedure described above, at each replication, one randomly selected plausible value is used to proxy skills (one plausible value for literacy and one for numeracy), so as to incorporate in the resulting sequence of estimates the additional variability induced by the imputed nature of the measurements.

Because of the presence in our phylogeny of a monophyletic group conformed by the five lemur malarial lineages, we were able to use the colonization patterns of terrestrial vertebrates in Madagascar as a proxy for biologically plausible time estimates, since the introduction of malaria into lemurs could not have happened after the last terrestrial mammal colonization event (~20 Mya) [ 25, 26].

This appears plausible, since both factors are proxies for the lifestyle of the mother and probably more meaningful at younger age of the offspring.