What is it about?
In Epidemiology, we define two types of prevalence---the point prevalence, and the period prevalence. Here, we present a third type, the mean prevalence.
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Why is it important?
Neither point prevalence nor period prevalence reflects the burden of a disease; the mean prevalence does.
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This page is a summary of: The mean prevalence, Epidemiologic Methods, May 2020, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/em-2019-0033.
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