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The incidence rate ratio, a common epidemiologic measure that is sometimes confused with probability of causation, is not an estimate of etiologic fraction unless rates are constant or averaged over small time periods. Therefore, the rate fraction does not fully account for disease due to accelerated rate of occurrence.