Average age at first occurrence as an alternative occurrence parameter in epidemiology.
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- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 26 (4) , 867-872
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/26.4.867
Abstract
Current epidemiological methods focus mostly on incidence rates and their ratios as measures of occurrence and effect. Incidence rates and rate ratios can be hard to interpret when the outcome disease is common.Keywords
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