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• Title:Critical thinking : understanding and evaluating dental research / Donald Maxwell Brunette ; contributors Kathryn Hornby, Carol Oakley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Brunette, Donald Maxwell.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:EBSCOhost.
  
• Published/Created:Chicago : Quintessence Pub. Co., ©2007.
  

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  • Call Number: WU20.5
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects: Dentistry--Research--Evaluation.
  
• Medical Subjects:Dental Research.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:1 online resource ; cm.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:086715537X (electronic bk.)
  9780867155372 (electronic bk.)
  9780867154269 (pbk.)
  0867154268
  
• Contents: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, and authority
  Inductive logic: hypothesis and 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 of measurement
  Presentation of results
  Diagnostic tests and measurements in clinical practice
  Research strategies and threats to validity
  Observaton
  Correlation
  Experimentation
  Experiment design
  Statistics as an inductive argument and other statistical concepts
  Judgment
  Exercises in critical thinking.