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More than a century after William Farr’s 1838 publication “On prognosis”, the difference between “risk” and “rate” was rediscovered by epidemiologists in the 1970s. The concept of the incidence rate over person-time continues to be misunderstood and has led to recent controversies.
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Vandenbroucke, J.P. (2004). Continuing controversies over “risks and rates” — more than a century after William Farr’s “On prognosis”. In: Morabia, A. (eds) A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7603-2_8
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