Critical thinking: understanding and evaluating dental research
Title Statements
- Full title :Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2019
- Edition:Third edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Quintessence Publishing Co Inc
- Place of Publication:Batavia, IL
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:s.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780867158007, 086715800X
- oclc:on1180914598
- LC Classification:RK80
- Dewey Decimal:617.6 027
Table of 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
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