Compare and Contrast the Epidemiological Terms "Endemic," "Epidemic," and "Pandemic

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Essay

Compare and contrast the epidemiological terms "endemic," "epidemic," and "pandemic." Give an example of each to support your answer.

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly by using the mean, median, or mode.

Variance

A measure of the distribution of data points in a data set around the mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Z-score

A statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of its data set, used in standardizing scores for comparison.

Probability Sampling

Sampling based on random selection of the sample units.