differentiate incidental rate from prevalence rate?

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differentiate incidental rate from prevalence rate?

2006-08-02 03:05:15 · 1 answers · asked by amazing_sweet_angel 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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From Wikipedia

Prevalence
In epidemiology, the prevalence of a disease in a statistical population is defined as the ratio of the number of cases of a disease present in a statistical population at a specified time and the number of individuals in the population at that specified time.

The incidence of disease is defined as the number of new cases of disease occurring in a population during a defined time interval.

2006-08-02 13:45:36 · answer #1 · answered by X 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋