Critical thinking: understanding and evaluating dental research
Title Statements
- Full title :Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette ; contributors Kathryn Hornby, Carol Oakley.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2007.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Quintessence Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 312 p. : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780867154269, 0867154268
- oclc:ocn938700660
Table of 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.
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