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Added by Neil Sheth , last edited by Neil Sheth on Apr 08, 2007  (view change)
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Incidence is a measure of the number of new cases of a disease that crop up in a population over a specified time interval.

The writers of the [OITE] assume that many people confuse this with Prevalence

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