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number of new cases in a fixed period of time/ number of people at risk
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incidence
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number of people with a disease/number of people at risk
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prevalence
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also referred to as risk or absolute risk of a disease
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incidence
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incidence in exposed individuals/ incidence in unexposed individuals
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relative risk
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the proportion of people with a disease who are correctly predicted by the test to have the disease
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sensitivity
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the proportion of people without a disease who are correctly predicted by the test to not have the disease
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specificity
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t/f. if prevalence is low then less people will be correctly identified as diseased or not diseased
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false. when prevalence is low, then more people will be incorrectly identified as diseased or not diseased
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