Some concepts of clinical and epidemiological statistics such as frequency, incidence and prevalence are illustrated, and their limits and significance determined.
Two methods of actuarial type suitable to hospital casuistics are exposed, one for the study of the possible association of two morbid conditions and the other one for the determination of survival rates.
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