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" Critical thinking : "
Donald Maxwell Brunette.
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BL
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638502
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Brunette, Donald Maxwell.
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| Title & Author
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Critical thinking : : understanding and evaluating dental research /\ Donald Maxwell Brunette.
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2nd ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: Quintessence Pub. Co.,, c2007.
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x, 312 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 28 cm.
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9780867154269 (pbk.)
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: 0867154268 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: 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 & authority -- Inductive logic: hypothesis and causation -- Quacks, cranks and abuses of logic -- Probability and statistics: pt. 1, discrete variables -- Probability and statistics: pt. 2, continuous variables -- Measurement -- Errors of measurement -- Presentation of results -- Reliability, sensitivity, and specificity of diagnostic tests and measurements -- Research strategies -- Observaton -- Correlation -- Experimentation -- Experimental design -- Some more on statistical inference -- Judgment.
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Dentistry-- Research-- Evaluation.
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Dental Research.
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RK80.B78 2007
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