Sentence examples for true proxy from inspiring English sources

In other words, the FC approach operates on the premise that employee wages are not a true proxy for lost productivity, and that wages are likely to be the upper bound estimate of lost productivity due to illness.

If it were possible to re-analyze those data and incorporate information on theatre of service of individual veterans, that would provide a truer proxy for DU exposure, rather than the imprecise approximation of Yes/No deployment in the war.

Following Aigner and Cain ([1977]) employer's assumptions about differential reliability of credentials to proxy true productivity across different groups of workers in combination with risk-aversion may be thought to result in statistical discrimination.

Proxy-completed responses can be conceptualized partly as the results of selection bias, and partly the result of true differences between proxy and self-respondents.

We viewed calls to poison centers as a proxy for true incidence and although we expected trends in both calls and true incidence to be similar, it is likely that the number of calls per year grossly underestimated the true incidence.

Both microarray expression data and CAI are imperfect proxies for true protein abundance (indeed, the Spearman correlation between these two proxies is only 0.62) [ 22, 24], and so statistically controlling with these variables does not completely correct for effects due to actual protein abundances or expression levels.

We can confirm that the HHI calculated on hospital level is a very poor proxy for true market concentration.

Most authors refrain from creating a hospital system identifier, but calculate concentration measures based on individual hospitals as a proxy for true market powerh.

While this affirmation appears probably too deterministic to describe the multifaceted reality, it is true that there are proxy indicators suggesting that sophisticated criminal networks are exploiting wildlife as source of profit, especially in its most lucrative areas such as caviar smuggling (Cook et al. [2002]; Cooper [2006] IFAW [2008]]) and the fur trade (according to two interviewees).

Because it uses quality scores as a proxy for true error rates, the model does not distinguish between basecall and indel errors, but aggregates them together.

These data were a proxy for true MRSA incidence.