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| The incidence of a disease in a population |
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| The degree to which a measurement or an estimate based on measurements represents the true value of the attribue that is being measured. |
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| American College of Epidemiology |
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| Advisory committee on health research |
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| The rate of outcome after controlling for a variable or variables across the entire population or both groups of comparisons |
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| The subject to which an outcome is attributable,e.g. bacteria, virus, chemicals,etc. |
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| American Journal of Epidemiology |
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| The probabilty of making a type 1 error, the error of rejecting the null hypothesis |
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| American Journal of Public health |
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| American Public health association |
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| American Public health association |
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| systematic failure to represent equally all classes of cases or persons supposed to be represented in a sample. |
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| Defined as the number of people at risk who develop a Certain disease Divided by the total number of people at risk |
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| The proportion used to calculate the attributable risk ( this term is often used synonymously with atributable risk) |
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| The amount or proportion of disease incidence that can be attributed to a specific exposure. |
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