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Slot: rate_denominator

What rate_per_100000 (and rate_low/rate_high) is a rate of. Makes the dimension of the rate explicit so a prevalence proportion is never silently compared with an incidence rate.

ALWAYS set this on an ANNUAL_INCIDENCE record: that measure has no implied denominator, because per-population-per-year and per-person-year are both common and are interchangeable only when the population is stable. An incidence record without this slot is undetermined, not defaulted.

Optional elsewhere: a record that omits it falls back to the denominator implied by measure_type — POPULATION for the prevalence measures and for CARRIER_FREQUENCY, LIVE_BIRTHS for BIRTH_PREVALENCE (see RateDenominatorEnum). Populate it anyway whenever the source's denominator differs from that fallback, or whenever the record is intended for cross-record comparison.

URI: dismech:slot/rate_denominator Alias: rate_denominator

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
Prevalence no

Properties

Type and Range

Property Value
Range RateDenominatorEnum
Domain Of Prevalence

Cardinality and Requirements

Property Value

Examples

Value
LIVE_BIRTHS

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/monarch-initiative/dismech

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self dismech:rate_denominator
native dismech:rate_denominator

LinkML Source

name: rate_denominator
description: 'What `rate_per_100000` (and rate_low/rate_high) is a rate *of*. Makes
  the dimension of the rate explicit so a prevalence proportion is never silently
  compared with an incidence rate.

  ALWAYS set this on an `ANNUAL_INCIDENCE` record: that measure has no implied denominator,
  because per-population-per-year and per-person-year are both common and are interchangeable
  only when the population is stable. An incidence record without this slot is undetermined,
  not defaulted.

  Optional elsewhere: a record that omits it falls back to the denominator implied
  by `measure_type` — POPULATION for the prevalence measures and for CARRIER_FREQUENCY,
  LIVE_BIRTHS for BIRTH_PREVALENCE (see RateDenominatorEnum). Populate it anyway whenever
  the source''s denominator differs from that fallback, or whenever the record is
  intended for cross-record comparison.'
examples:
- value: LIVE_BIRTHS
from_schema: https://w3id.org/monarch-initiative/dismech
rank: 1000
alias: rate_denominator
domain_of:
- Prevalence
range: RateDenominatorEnum