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Measures of dental disease occurrence
Author(s) -
Hujoel P. P.,
Weyant R. J.,
DeRouen T. A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1991.tb00161.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , incidence (geometry) , statistics , interpretation (philosophy) , dentistry , pathology , mathematics , geometry , computer science , programming language
The purpose of the paper is to relate standard epidemiologic and statistical methods for measures of disease occurrence to the description of prevalence proportions and incidence rates of dental diseases. No new concepts are introduced but the choice of the unit of analysis of numerator and denominator is discussed, and the biological interpretation of the within‐patient correlation coefficient is discussed.