Brunette, Donald Maxwell, <br/><br/>
Critical thinking :  understanding and evaluating dental research / 
Donald Maxwell Brunette. 
 - Third edition. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780867158014  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019018451 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dental Research
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RK80 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>617.6027   / BDC 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WU 20.5