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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828328503321

Autore

Smeeton N. C.

Titolo

Dental statistics made easy / / Nigel C. Smeeton, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, UK and Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering King's College, London, UK

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4987-7508-X

1-315-38127-3

1-4987-7506-3

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

617.60072

Soggetti

Dentistry - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Chapman & Hall Book"--cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Planning a study -- 3. Types of study in dental research -- 4. Sampling -- 5. Randomised controlled trials -- 6. Ethical considerations -- 7. The normal distribution -- 8. Diagnostic tests -- 9. Sampling variation -- 10. Introduction to hypothesis tests -- 11. Comparing two means -- 12. Dealing with proportions and categorical data -- 13. Comparing several means -- 14. Regression, correlation and agreement -- 15. Non-normally distributed data -- 16. The choice of sample size -- 17. Evidence-based dentistry -- 18. Statistical refereeing.