Note: Cost per vote is the total amount raised by the candidate divided by the number of he or she received in the election. 1  The New York Times, Donald Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, November 18, 2016. 2  Alabama GOP, 2016 Republican National Convention Delegates, accessed April 11, 2016.
Incidence. The basic incidence rate (sometimes called just incidence) is a measure of the frequency with which a disease occurs in a population over a period of time. The formula for calculating an incidence rate is: 1  The numerator (x). 2  should include only new cases of the disease that occurred during the specified period.
Incidence is the frequency with which an event occurs within a given time period (such as one year). For example, it could be said that the incidence of new breast cancer cases in 2007 demonstrated 50,000 new cases. By contrast, prevalence refers to how many people currently have that condition this year.