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cohort study
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Cohort study
A
cohort study
or
panel study
is a form of
longitudinal study
(a type of
observational study
) used in
medicine
,
nursing
,
social science
,
actuarial science
,
business analytics
, and
ecology
. For instance in medicine, it is an analysis of
risk factors
and follows a group of people who do not have the disease, and uses correlations to determine the absolute risk of subject contraction. It is one type of
clinical study design
and should be compared with a
cross-sectional study
. Cohort studies are largely about the life histories of segments of populations, and the individual people who constitute these segments.
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