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Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brunette, Donald Maxwell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Quintessence Pub. Co., ©2007.
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
Dentistry > Research > Evaluation.
Dentistry > Research.
Dental Research
Dentisterie > Recherche > Évaluation.
Dentisterie > Recherche.
Dentistry > Research
Dentistry > Research > Evaluation
Tandheelkunde.
Onderzoek.
Evaluatie.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reasons for studying critical thinking
  • Scientific method and the behavior of scientists
  • Rhetoric
  • Searching the dental literature
  • Logic: the basics
  • Introduction to abductive and inductive logic: analogy, models & authority
  • Inductive logic: hypothesis and causation
  • Quacks, cranks and abuses of logic
  • Probability and statistics: pt. 1, discrete variables
  • Probability and statistics: pt. 2, continuous variables
  • Measurement
  • Errors of measurement
  • Presentation of results
  • Reliability, sensitivity, and specificity of diagnostic tests and measurements
  • Research strategies
  • Observaton
  • Correlation
  • Experimentation
  • Experimental design
  • Some more on statistical inference
  • Judgment.