Question

True or False: An attack rate is better used when trying to see how quickly people develop an illness over an extended period of time.

Answer 1

Ans:

The above statement is True.

Attack rate, in epidemiology, the proportion of people who become ill with (or who die from) a disease in a population initially free of the disease. The term attack rate is sometimes used interchangeably with the term incidence proportion.

Attack rates typically are used in the investigation of acute outbreaks of disease, where they can help identify exposures that contributed to the illness (e.g., consumption of a specific food).