Introduction to Epidemiology 6th Edition by Ray M Merrill

Exercise 14

Compare and contrast the person-time incidence rate with the attack rate.

Step 1 of 3

In a population, when new cases happens very fast and rapidly in a short interval of time then at that time the incidence rate is termed to be as attack rate. This can be formulated as:

Attack rate is also known as cumulative incidence rate.