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Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette ; contributors Kathryn Hornby, Carol Oakley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brunette, Donald Maxwell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dentistry--Research--Evaluation.
- Dentistry.
- Dental Research.
- Dentistry--Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dental Research.
- Physical Description:
- x, 312 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover Park, IL : Quintessence Pub. Co., [2007]
- Contents:
- 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, and authority
- Inductive logic: hypothesis and causation
- Quacks, cranks, and abuses of logic
- Elements of probability and statistics, part 1: discrete variables
- Elements of probability and statistics, part 2: continuous variables
- The importance of measurement in dentistry
- Errors of measurement
- Presentation of results
- Diagnostic tests and measurements in clinical practice
- Research strategies and threats to validity
- Observaton
- Correlation
- Experimentation
- Experiment design
- Statistics as an inductive argument and other statistical concepts
- Judgment
- Exercises in critical thinking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0867154268
- 9780867154269
- OCLC:
- 136316643
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