TY - BOOK AU - Brunette,Donald Maxwell TI - Critical thinking: understanding and evaluating dental research SN - 9780867154269 (pbk.) U1 - 617.6027 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Chicago PB - Quintessence Pub. Co. KW - Dentistry KW - Research KW - Evaluation KW - Dental Research N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021716.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007021716.html ER -