4 5 Age is a reliable proxy for life expectancy in young patients (long life expectancy) and very elderly patients (short life expectancy).
Haider and Solon ([2006]) shows that any regression model that uses annual earnings as a proxy for life-time earnings may give inconsistent estimates if there is earnings growth rate heterogeneity.
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.
Sports has become a proxy for life's deficiencies.
Here, we investigate whether education, a key proxy for life course brain ageing related to health has any association with the timing of the onset of terminal decline.
27 A patient centered approach to quality measurement, one that incorporates health status and individual preferences, is particularly needed in older patients in whom age alone is an inadequate proxy for life expectancy (such as those aged 70-80).
These include habitat affinity [23], mean clutch size and bird weight (proxies for life history characteristics [24]), diet [25], [26], tolerance of human modified landscapes [27], and range extent [28].
Though we adjusted for parental socioeconomic factors as a proxy for life-style factors such as smoking, the influence of parental smoking on the relationship between fetal growth and adult IHD or MI warrants further investigation.
In other words, it wants to reinvent farmers as a general proxy for rural life, and reward them in that capacity.Good try.
Sekara and Lehmann [29] studied how to deploy the electronic datasets as a valid proxy for real life social interactions, and found that the strength of electronic signals can be used to distinguish between strong and weak friendship ties.
