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Incidence Rate Example

 

Numerator:   Reported GC cases in US for 2011: 321,849

 

Denominator: US Population in 2011 (est.): 308,745,538

  Incidence Rate =

     321,849 new cases

308,745,538 people in US

= 0.001042