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Product Information:
Author: Brunette, Donald Maxwell
Title: Critical Thinking: Understanding and Evaluating Dental Research, Second Edition
The second edition of this classic textbook should be required reading for undergraduate and graduate students alike. It prepares readers for the daunting task of identifying and accessing the information they need in the dental literature, reading it from a critical vantage point, and applying formal rules and measurements to assess the soundness of the author’s conclusions. The author introduces issues of logic, statistics, measurement, research design, and argument and explores their specific application in dental research reports. Featuring new chapters on scientific rhetoric and a guide to the dental literature, as well as significantly expanded chapters on statistics, this completely revised edition is ideal for anyone who wishes to become a more discerning reader of dental literature.
ISBN: 978-0-86715-426-9 , 9780867154269
324 pp (softcover); 90 illus (mostly color)
Table of 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 Dental Practice
15. Research Strategies and Threats to Validity
16. Observation
17. Correlation and Cohort
18. Experimentation
19. Experimental Design
20. Statistics as an Inductive Argument and Some More Statistical Issues and Concepts
21. Judgment
22. Problems
23. Comments on Problems
• Appendices
Donald Maxwell Brunette
Contributors
Caroline Oakley and Kathryn Hornby
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