Sentence examples for precise proxy from inspiring English sources

When the simple, less precise proxy measures of air pollution, traffic indicators, were adjusted for the more precisely determined street noise levels, the estimated effect of traffic might be 'over-adjusted'.

Its findings will help determine whether wages can be used as a precise proxy of marginal productivity in estimating productivity loss due to illness-related absenteeism.

This suggests (based only on patterns of variability) that sexual dichromatism is not always a very precise proxy for sexual selection.

First, it suggests that the degree of redundancy may be a key factor in determining a TFBS's observed functional constraint, even when detected by more precise proxies than cross-species conservation, such as within-species variability.

18 As the information for trust in the country of origin given by the WVS is fairly recent, the older the individuals the less precise is our proxy for trust in the country of origin at the time of migration.

The SEC's rulemaking process will define the precise parameters of proxy access," he said.

While this may not be precise, it is a fair proxy for the amount of the relevant genetic history.

The researchers selected only proxies that had precise dating, so that warm or cold spells at different times were not lumped together.

Explicit reconstruction of past gradients could potentially surmount this problem but would require major advances in independent paleotemperature proxies and their precise correlation to fossil floras.

Both proxies accord with the empirical expectations of (Day et al. 2007) and are rendered essential by the available data, even if the proxies are imperfect: the precise variables that are theoretically interesting are often empirically inaccessible.

Several in vivo CH4 measurement techniques have been developed but are not suitable for precise and accurate large-scale measurements; hence, proxies for CH4 emissions in dairy cattle have been proposed, including the milk fatty acid (MFA) profile.