TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brunette,Donald Maxwell
AU  - Hornby,Kathryn
AU  - Oakley,Carol
TI  - Critical thinking: understanding and evaluating dental research 
SN  - 9780867154269 (pbk.) :
AV  - RK80 .B78 2007
U1  - 617.6027 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago, Ill., London
PB  - Quintessence
KW  - Dentistry
KW  - Research
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Dental Research
N1  - Previous ed.: 1996; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -