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Measures of disease frequency quantify the burden and development of disease in populations. Two common measures of disease frequency are prevalence and incidence.
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Kestenbaum, B. (2019). Basic Measures of Disease Frequency. In: Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96644-1_2
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