Basic Concepts
- For describing situations
- Incidence (epidemiology) vs. Prevalence vs. Cumulative incidence
- Transmission rate vs. Force of infection
- Mortality rate vs. Standardized mortality ratio vs. Age-standardized mortality rate
- Pandemic vs. Epidemic vs. Endemic vs. Syndemic
- Serial interval vs. Incubation period
- Cancer cluster
- Sexual network
- Years of potential life lost
- Maternal mortality rate
- Perinatal mortality rate
- Low Birth weight ratio
- For assessing the effectiveness of an intervention
- Absolute risk reduction
- Control event rate
- Experimental event rate
- Number needed to harm
- Number needed to treat
- Odds ratio
- Relative risk reduction
- Relative risk
- Relative survival
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