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Epidemiology

new cases divided by the person-time at risk, an instantaneous rate that case-referent sampling can estimate without assuming the disease is rare.

In epidemiology, incidence density refers to new cases divided by the person-time at risk, an instantaneous rate that case-referent sampling can estimate without assuming the disease is rare. This meaning comes from Miettinen (1976) in American Journal of Epidemiology.[1]

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References

Miettinen, O. (1976). Estimability and Estimation in Case-referent Studies. American Journal of Epidemiology, 103(2), 226-235. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112220

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