Sentence examples for used as a proxy which from inspiring English sources

Consequently, a prevalence rate from Germany was used as a proxy, which has face validity but the consequence of which is that the true prevalence rate of ADHD in the Netherlands may be under- or overestimated.

Data from a recent prospective cohort study found that pregnant women of all body masses under-report their prepregnancy weight when first trimester weight is used as a proxy which further substantiates the need for objective measurements [ 311].

Although it was designed to measure the contiguity of an assembly, it is frequently used as a proxy by which to gauge the quality of a genome assembly.

We adjusted for household income used as a proxy for SES, which did not change the results nor did adjustment for watching TV (data not shown).

Because the insects cannot be counted, the combined size of the butterfly colonies is used as a proxy in the census, which is conducted by the commission and a partnership between the World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican cellphone company Telcel.

So at first, he used as a proxy the Portuguese mountains, which fortunately are high and cold enough to allow him to study processes relevant to polar research.

Further, employment to population ratio is used as a proxy of unemployment ratio which shows significant but negative impact on migration.

Given their close physical linkage, recombination between gnd and cps is probably unfrequent, and gnd sequencing could therefore be used as a proxy for K typing, which is technically demanding [50], [65], [66].

GFP expression from the pEGFP-C1 plasmid was used as a proxy for transfection efficiency, which ranged from 45 80%.

For the submodel of symptomatic detection, TBA was used as a proxy for breast size, which has a closer relation to detection, through palpation, than BMI.

In addition, "quality of reporting" is commonly used as a proxy for trial quality, which has complicated the construct of "quality" even more.