Sentence examples for proxy characteristics from inspiring English sources

Proxy characteristics were generally unrelated to agreement with patient reported health.

Table 3 shows the relationship of the mean absolute difference of each scale to proxy characteristics.

Future research, should further evaluate the impact of patient and proxy characteristics on rater agreement and include further criteria for accuracy of proxy ratings.

In order to evaluate the relationship between proxy characteristics and the agreement of proxy-patient responses, the absolute difference in scores was computed.

In our study, the comparison across proxy characteristics was made only among proxies who were considered most knowledgeable about the patients' health.

If the models would explain all of the variance then this would imply that patient-by-proxy assessments would only be based on proxy characteristics and not on patient characteristics.

A number of studies have presented correlative evidence for a link between secondary sexual signals and functional fertility (or, as a proxy, sperm characteristics) in various taxa (e.g. Malo et al. 2005; Pitcher et al. 2007; Polak & Simmons 2009).

Proxies' individual characteristics did not predict agreement between patients and proxies on these three scales.

Through strong U.S. support and intervention, these became protracted, proxy wars characteristic of the Cold War era, which had lasting and devastating economic, political, and social consequences.

If the term "area-level stress" is in fact a proxy of neighborhood characteristics, it may actually reflect those neighborhood characteristics which affect cardiovascular diseases through a "materialistic pathway" rather than psychosocial pathways.

This protocol will also serve as an excellent proxy for the characteristics of the molecular beam pulse emitted from the valve.