Incidence vs Coverage - What's the difference?
incidence | coverage |
The act of something happening; occurrence
The extent, or the relative frequency of something happening
(physics) The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface
(epidemiology) A measure of the risk that a person develops a new condition within a specified period of time, usually a year.
An amount by which something or someone is covered.
The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
(lb) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
As nouns the difference between incidence and coverage
is that incidence is the act of something happening; occurrence while coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered.incidence
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(wikipedia incidence) (en noun)Derived terms
* angle of incidence * incidence algebra * incidence axiom * incidence function * incidence geometry * incidence graph * nonincidenceSee also
* prevalenceExternal links
* * * ----coverage
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(wikipedia coverage)- Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
- Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
- The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
- There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.