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14:20 Feb 13, 2011
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Mathematics & Statistics / Cálculo de personas-tiempo para el denominador de una tasa de incidencia
Spanish term or phrase: valor de personas-tiempo
Como se oberva, la tasa de mortalidad no está basada en el número de habitantes, sino en una unidad de tiempo. Es decir, se produjeron X casos nuevos (muertes) entre XX personas-tiempo. El resultado puede expresarse del mismo modo por personas-año. Para ello, basta con dividir el número de fallecimientos por la duración del período.
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4X new cases (deaths) occur per 1000 (XXXX) people per year
Dr Neil Ashby
2value for persons per period of time
Noni Gilbert


  

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value for persons per period of time


Explanation:
A layperson's explanation:

The last part doesn't square for me. What I take it is that they are saying that if you take, say, 12 deaths per year, and divide the year by, say, months, the answer is 12, then divide the total deaths by this number and the answer is 1, in other words, 1 death per month (on average) which would be right.
The text is emphasising that it is talking about rate of deaths for length of time and not as a percentage of the population.

Noni Gilbert
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X new cases (deaths) occur per 1000 (XXXX) people per year


Explanation:
X new cases occur per number of people per time period....this is very wordy and unnatural but a translation of the original text.
Normally we would just quote directly
"X new cases occur per 1000 people per year."

Dr Neil Ashby
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