An Epidemiologist Wants To Calculate The Risk Cumulative Incidence Of Autism Among Children Less Than 5 Years Old In T 1 (245.73 KiB) Viewed 40 times
An epidemiologist wants to calculate the risk (cumulative incidence) of autism among children less than 5 years old in the US during 2020. How should they calculate it? Chose the best possible answer. Count of all children with an existing diagnosis of autism during 2020 who are less than 5 years old in the US divided by the count of children less than 5 years old in the US Count of all children with an existing diagnosis of autism during 2020 who are less than 5 years old in the US divided by the count of children less than 18 years old in the US Count of all children less than 5 years old who got a new diagnosis of autism during 2020 in the US divided by the count of children less than 5 years old in the US Count of all children less than 5 years old who got a new diagnosis of autism 5 during 2020 in the US divided by the count of children less than 18 years old in the US Count of all children less than 5 years old who got a new diagnosis of autism during 2020 in the US divided by the count of children less than 5 years old in the US who did not have an autism diagnosis at the beginning of 2020 Count of all children less than 5 years old who got a new diagnosis of autism during 2020 in the US divided by the count of children less than 18 years old in the US who did not have an autism diagnosis at the beginning of 2020
Regardless of how you chose to calculate the risk for the previous question, let's say the value of the calculation was is 0.01. How should the risk (cumulative incidence) be expressed when presenting the data? Choose the best possible answer. 0.01 1.0% 10 per 1,000 1 per 100 person years 0.01%
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