Sentence examples for year as a proxy from inspiring English sources

Another difference compared to the benchmark equations is that instead of using hours worked in the preceding year as a proxy for actual hours, we here assume full-time employment.

High repeatability (see [40]) justifies the use of one estimate of AOC per individual and year as a proxy for the relative AOC level during a given breeding season.

We also examined the trend in mean of daily counts for each year as a proxy for trends in deer abundance because count data were available and consistently recorded for almost every year since 1987.

We used year as a proxy for the type of OC women may have used.

In the analysis of mortality, we also adjusted for hospitalization within 1 year as a proxy for disease severity.

With study year as a proxy for changing management patterns, some evidence of bleeding rates and/or their reporting increasing over time was noted.

Because ferritin may be influenced by menopause, we stratified by age (45 years as a proxy cut-off for pre- and postmenopausal age).

We stratified for age (45 years as a proxy for the pre/postmenopausal cut-off) in the Andean group because the population included women from 12 to 80 years of age and because menopause might influence ferritin and other factors that might confound associations between genotypes and Cd metabolism.

Distinguishing race/ethnicity and manner-of-death, we first profiled our study population according to gender, age (15-34; 355-74 55-74; 75+ yeducationucation (0-8 years; 9-12 years; 13+ years; unknown) as a proxy for social class, documentation of psychiatric comorbidity on the death certificate (no/yes), and injury mode or method (less/more active).

Total length is a measure that's been used by various researchers (myself included) over the years as a proxy for the mass of dinosaurs.

Pakistan's security establishment has nurtured Lashkar for years as a proxy force to attack targets and enemies in India and in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.