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study design  

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  • Epidemiologic studies have traditionally been categorized as having “descriptive” or “analytic” designs. Descriptive studies are viewed primarily as hypothesis-generating studies and usually take advantage of routinely collected data to describe the distribution of a disease in a population in terms of the basic descriptors of person, place, and time. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Study Design]

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