Critical thinking
Subtitle: understanding and evaluating dental research
By: Donald Maxwell Brunette.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Quintessence Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780867154269
Subjects: Dentistry -- Research -- Evaluation; Dental Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reasons for studying critical thinking; title: Scientific method and the behavior of scientists; title: Rhetoric; title: Searching the dental literature; title: Logic: the basics; title: Introduction to abductive and inductive logic: analogy, models & authority; title: Inductive logic: hypothesis and causation; title: Quacks, cranks and abuses of logic; title: Probability and statistics: pt. 1, discrete variables; title: Probability and statistics: pt. 2, continuous variables; title: Measurement; title: Errors of measurement; title: Presentation of results; title: Reliability, sensitivity, and specificity of diagnostic tests and measurements; title: Research strategies; title: Observaton; title: Correlation; title: Experimentation; title: Experimental design; title: Some more on statistical inference; title: Judgment.