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 rate (or incidence density) = Number of people who develop disease Number of person-years when people were at risk of developing a disease For example, if measuring the incidence of prostate cancer in 1000 men over 10 years, and 80