Prevalence

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(epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: preponderance
plural: Prevalences
possessive: Prevalence's
pluralpossessive: Prevalences'

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