15615 IUPAC Gold Book - cumulative incidence 10.1351/goldbook.15615 15615 current synonym: incidence proportion 1 Number or proportion of individuals in a group who experience the onset of a health-related event during a specified time interval. This interval is generally the same for all members of the group, but, as in lifetime incidence, it may vary from person to person without reference to age. health https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15757 PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1200 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15615/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15615/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/15615/plain Citation: 'cumulative incidence' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.15615 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-23T17:18:21+00:00