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Epidemiology

the observation that epidemics rise and fall in a roughly symmetric bell-shaped curve, used to project epidemic courses.

In epidemiology, Farr's law refers to the observation that epidemics rise and fall in a roughly symmetric bell-shaped curve, used to project epidemic courses. This meaning comes from Bregman (1990) in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.[1]

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References

Bregman, D. J. (1990). Farr's Law Applied to AIDS Projections. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 263(11), 1522. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440110088033

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