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An element of the epidemiological triad
Agent
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An element of the epidemiological triad
Host
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An element of the epidemiological triad
Environment
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Incidence density characteristically uses individual-years at ____ as the denominator
Risk
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The proportion of diseased animals that ___. Fatality (F) = number of deaths/number of diseased F = D / N
Die
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Mortality _______ (MD) uses same denominator as ID
Density
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Cumulative _________ (CM) is more like prevalence, only uses population at start
Mortality
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Diagnostic test performance. ________ refers to the closeness between test result and ‘true’ disease state
Accuracy
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Diagnostic test performance. Misclassification ____: measure of the systematic deviation from ‘true’ disease state
Bias
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Diagnostic test performance. _________: the degree of fluctuation of the results obtained through repeated testing of the same biological sample
Precision
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Any evaluation of diagnostic tests requires a measure of the ‘true’ disease status of the animal, which is usually called the ____ standard or reference test…
Gold
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___________ is defined as the proportion of subjects without disease who will have a negative result --->TRUE NEGATIVES
Specificity
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SnNout: if sensitivity is ____ then a negative result allows us to rule out a disease
High
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SpPin: if specificity is high then a positive result allows us to rule __ a disease
In
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