Editing Epidemiological method (section)

== Measures ==
Epidemiologists are famous for their use of rates. Each measure serves to characterize the disease giving valuable information about contagiousness, incubation period, duration, and mortality of the disease.{{cn|date=August 2022}}

=== Measures of occurrence ===
# [[incidence (epidemiology)|Incidence]] measures
## [[Incidence rate]], where cases included are defined using a [[case definition]]
## [[Hazard rate]]
## [[Cumulative incidence]]
# [[Prevalence]] measures
## [[Point prevalence]]
## [[Period prevalence]]

=== Measures of association ===
# Relative measures
## [[Risk ratio]]
## [[Rate ratio]]
## [[Odds ratio]]
## [[Hazard ratio]]
# Absolute measures
## [[Absolute risk reduction]]
## [[Attributable risk]]
### [[Attributable risk in exposed]]
### [[Percent attributable risk]]
### [[Levin's attributable risk]]

=== Other measures ===
# [[Virulence]] and [[Infectivity]]
# [[Mortality rate]] and [[Morbidity rate]]
# [[Case fatality]]
# [[Sensitivity (tests)]] and [[Specificity (tests)]]