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Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette ; with contributions by Ben Balevi, Helen L. Brown.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks RK80 .B78 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brunette, Donald Maxwell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dentistry--Research.
- Dentistry.
- Dental Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dental Research.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Chicago : Quintessence Publishing, [2020]
- Contents:
- Reasons for studying critical thinking
- Scientific method and the behavior of scientists
- The components of a scientific paper
- Rhetoric
- Searching the dental literature
- Logic : the basics
- Introduction to abductive and inductive logic : analogy, models, and authority
- 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 in measurement
- Presentation of results
- Diagnosis tools and testing
- Research strategies and threats to validity
- Observation
- Correlation and association
- Experimentation
- Experiment design
- Statistics as an inductive argument and other statistical concepts
- Judgment
- Introduction to clinical decision making
- Exercises in critical thinking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brunette, Donald Maxwell. Critical thinking.
- ISBN:
- 9780867158007
- 086715800X
- OCLC:
- 1097612411
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