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Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research

Title: Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette.
Author: Brunette, Donald Maxwell.
Publication: Chicago : Quintessence Pub. Co., [2007], ©2007.

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x, 312 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Reasons for Studying Critical Thinking -- 2. Scientific Method and the Behavior of Scientists -- 3. Rhetoric -- 4. Searching the Dental Literature -- 5. Logic: The Basics -- 6. Introduction to Abductive and Inductive Logic: Analogy, Models, and Authority -- 7. Inductive Logic: Hypothesis and Causation -- 8. Quacks, Cranks, and Abuses of Logic -- 9. Elements of Probability and Statistics, Part 1: Discrete Variables -- 10. Elements of Probability and Statistics, Part 2: Continuous Variables -- 11. The Importance of Measurement in Dentistry -- 12. Errors of Measurement -- 13. Presentation of Results -- 14. Diagnostic Tests and Measurements in Clinical Practice -- 15. Research Strategies and Threats to Validity -- 16. Observation -- 17. Correlation -- 18. Experimentation -- 19. Experiment Design -- 20. Statistics As an Inductive Argument and Other Statistical Concepts -- 21. Judgment -- 22. Exercises in Critical Thinking.

ISBN

9780867154269 (pbk.)
0867154268 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007021716

OCLC

ocn136316643
136316643
SCSB-5434518

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Columbia University Libraries