Sentences with phrase «proxy for that»

The more you read on it, the more one wonders how they can use tree - rings as proxies for temperature at all.

Eventually the «consensus» will come to the conclusion that tree - rings, ice - cores, and bore - holes are not good proxies for temperature.

This conclusion was based on tree rings, ice cores, coral and other records as proxies for temperature.

But I thought we now knew that global surface temperature is a poor proxy for global heat content / aka global warming?

So we rely instead on a series of proxies for quality: law firm brands, law school brands, past performance on similar matters, and so on.

However, the mathematical solutions for charged black holes are used as proxies for what would happen inside rotating black holes, which are probably the norm.

This is a good proxy for quality, since longer articles tend to be more thorough.

This is an imperfect but reasonable proxy for how index funds would have performed.

Evidence that race is a good proxy for other factors that might be correlated with educational benefits does not support a compelling interest in the use of race to achieve academic results.

One is that available proxies for risk are not especially high in recent years.

Achievement tests are a reasonable proxy for school quality that a regulator could use to decide which schools should be included or excluded from the set of options available to parents.

So analysts rely on rough proxies for foreign ownership.

Over this period, tree - rings are an accurate proxy for climate.

Consequently, tree - ring width and tree - ring density, both indicators of tree growth, serve as useful proxies for temperature.

In our main analyses, we used enrollment and tuition levels as proxies for school quality.

Further, as with program quality, the standard measures of teacher quality (degrees, experience) are not reliable proxies for what teachers do in the classroom.

While you can use and should use historical growth rates as a potential proxy for future dividend growth, it should not be the only method in your analysis.

Because learning is invisible, those trying to detect good classroom practice resort to using proxies for student learning, including students seeming busy or engaged and motivated.

Of course, searches don't necessarily indicate support, since people who hate a candidate may still search for information about him or her, but they're a good proxy for interest.

To calculate the correlation during the Little Ice Age, researchers compared the core data with proxies for precipitation data, such as data from tree rings, cave formations and other natural records.

I'll start with book value, since it is my favorite proxy for intrinsic value.

In the environment we are talking about temperature is not a bad proxy for kinetic energy.

Researchers then evaluated other demographic and economic indicators to see if they could find a better proxy for work - related values — and they did.

Age is an excellent proxy for thickness and inverse salt content.

It would be hard to imagine that many out there aren't wondering this, too: Are tree rings even a decent proxy for temps?

It is not a paper proxy for gold, but the real thing — and you own it outright.

To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies.

If the «resources in the home» variable is a reliable proxy for family income data, as the authors claim, then why use the flawed federal lunch program variable at all?

However, student achievement is an imperfect proxy for general social benefits of schooling, which could be independent of the private gains of religious education or group identity.

Are the measures in question good proxies for teacher quality?

You prove this by passing a series of tests they have determined are good proxies for whether you will do so.

These facts suggest constructing the empirical proxy for productivity using gross profits.

And / or, that tracking insulin levels is a good proxy for predicting current and future metabolic health?

Furthermore, test - based accountability is built on the assumption that test results are reliable proxies for success later in life, but research has called that assumption into question.

On street residential parking and private parking rates by the hour and time of day, as well as weight (proxy for physical footprint taking up curb space).