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Rate

Value, measure, or degree; a charge, payment, or price determined through the application of a mathematical formula or based upon a scale or standard.

For example, an interest rate is determined by the ratio between the principal and interest.

Rate is also used synonymously with tax.

rate

noun amount, assessment, charge, cost, expense, fare, fee, hire, magno, obligation, pace, parvo emere, price, quotation, standard, tempo, valuation, value, velocity, worth
Associated concepts: legal rate of interest, rate of exchange

rate

verb aestimare, appraise, apprize, assess, class, classify, compute, determine, esteem, estimate, evaluate, figure, fix the price of, gauge, grade, judge, measure, merit, price, quantify, rank, reckon, set a value on, tag, value, weigh

RATE. A public valuation or assessment of every man's estate; or the ascertaining how much tax every one shall pay. Vide Pow. Mortg. Index, h.t.; Harr. Dig. h.t.; 1 Hopk. C. R. 87.

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22] The coefficients linking per capita public health expenditure and other health outcomes such as infant mortality rate, percent of population above 65 years, and population growth rate shows negative relationship.

Public health expenditure of BRICS countries--an empirical analysis

Bayesian Spatial Modeling was used to determine the impact of various socio-economic factors on infant mortality rate.

Spatial Analysis and Modeling of Infant Mortality Rate Using Conditional Autoregressive Model - A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

To determine the sex differences in the burden of infant mortality fisher's exact test and Chi Square with Yates corrections were used to measure the statistical difference between the infant mortality rates for males and females.

Gender differentials and disease-specific cause of infant mortality: a case study in an urban hospital in Accra, Ghana

Rodolfo Stusser, a Miami doctor and consultant, said he's done just what Gonzalez alluded to in his ASCE speech: While working in Las Tunas province in the early 1970s, his unit would record after-birth deaths as fetal deaths "to meet government goals to reduce the infant mortality rate," he said.

Is Cuba's infant mortality rate really that low?

In terms of infant mortality rates, the United States ranks 31st out of the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Turkey (34) 17.

Three new studies illustrate persistent reproductive health disparities

He linked the increasing infant mortality rate to poor nutrition, improper care of pregnant mothers, self-medication and short birth intervals.

Khost infant mortality rate up sharply

A breakdown of infant mortality rates in Oklahoma by maternal race reveals consistent disparities between racial groups.

Statewide initiative aims to reduce infant mortality in Oklahoma

To see what effect distribution of births by gestational age might have on a nation's infant mortality rate, the NCHS applied our gestational-age specific infant mortality rate to Sweden's distribution of births by gestational age and found that in 2004 our infant mortality rate could have been reduced to 3.

High infant mortality rate due to preterm births

This rate was incorrectly identified as the infant mortality rate, which includes only infant deaths.

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG

The infant mortality rate in the United States did not improve between 2000 and 2005, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Infant mortality rates stagnate

US has highest infant mortality rate among wealthy nations USA--According to the CIA's World Fact Book, the US has the highest rate of infant mortality of the 23 wealthiest nations, with Memphis leading in infant deaths.

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The infant mortality rate (IMR) in Memphis, TN is among the highest in the nation.