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Prevalence vs Occurrence - What's the difference?

prevalence | occurrence |

As nouns the difference between prevalence and occurrence

is that prevalence is the quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension while occurrence is actual instance where a situation arises.

prevalence

English

(wikipedia prevalence) (Webster 1913)

Noun

  • The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
  • (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

    • Related terms

    * prevail * prevalent

    See also

    * incidence

    External links

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    occurrence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Actual instance where a situation arises.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

    Usage notes

    * This word is often misspelled occurence'', ''occurrance'' or ''occurance .

    Related terms

    * recurrence