Sentence examples for stage as a proxy from inspiring English sources

The need to determine the exact relationship between symptom duration and clinical outcomes (usually survival, but sometimes stage as a proxy for survival) is essential.

We used educational level as a proxy of socioeconomic status.

More advanced stage was used as a proxy marker for a poor outcome since more advanced stage is related to lower survival.

Whether stage is considered as a proxy for preceding confounders and/or an intermediate end point, it seems poor in both respects.

Instead, they tend to use current or easily estimated, late-stage, cash flows as a proxy for future cash flows, presumably because firms that have learned to develop and commercialize new drugs will continue to do so at the same rate as in the past (Löfqvist, 2009).

Nevertheless, we think the data on curricular stage may be perceived as a proxy.

In our study, however, stage at diagnosis is used merely as a proxy of treatment approach and an accurate stage classification is not required.

Educational level was chosen as a proxy for social position.

Like many stage managers Mr. Hedley also serves as a proxy director, giving notes to actors and overseeing rehearsals with understudies and replacement performers.

For childhood leukaemia, white blood cell count is often used as a proxy for stage.

The MMSE is also commonly used as a proxy for staging of Alzheimer's disease (AD) [ 4].