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rate
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rate
1. 
a. a price or charge with reference to a standard or scale
b. (as modifier): a rate card
2. a charge made per unit for a commodity, service, etc.
3. a wage calculated against a unit of time

rate [rāt]
(science and technology)
The amount of change of some quantity during a time interval divided by the length of the time interval.


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Trends in invasive meningococcal disease in Utah during 1995-2005 have differed substantially from US trends in incidence rate and serogroup and age distributions.
Given the above-mentioned assumption concerning the relationship between duration of employment and cumulative exposure, I calculated crude incidence rate ratios using data from Table 1 of Rericha et al.
A cumulative incidence rate used for particular groups observed for limited periods under special circumstances, such as during an epidemic.
 
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