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Incidence
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Number of new cases relating to an event that have arisen in a fixed period of time. It measures, for instance, the overall impact of new cases of a certain disease. One of the measurements that is used most is the cumulative incidence: the ratio between the number of new cases that have arisen in a specific period and the total of the population at risk in the same period.
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