Measures of dental disease occurrence
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Vol. 19 (5) , 252-256
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0528.1991.tb00161.x
Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to relate standard epidemiologic and statistical methods for measures of disease occurrence to the description of prevalence proportions and incidence rates of dental diseases. No new concepts are introduced, but the choice of the unit of analysis of numerator and denominator is discussed, and the biological interpretation of the within-patient correlation coefficient is discussed.Keywords
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