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| Preface | p. ix |
| Organizing, Writing, and Performing Dental Research | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| What Is Research? | p. 5 |
| Research Planning | p. 9 |
| Performing Research | p. 13 |
| How to Design a Research Study | p. 18 |
| Non-Bench Research | p. 28 |
| Sources of Error and Avoiding the "Whoops" Factor | p. 36 |
| Reports, Theses, Dissertations, and... MORE | p. 40 |
| Introduction and Literature Review | p. 45 |
| Methods and Materials (Experimental) | p. 55 |
| Results | p. 57 |
| The Discussion | p. 62 |
| Conclusions | p. 68 |
| The Abstract | p. 70 |
| Writing Style and Technique | p. 73 |
| Getting Published | p. 76 |
| Statistics and Statistical Analysis | |
| Basic Statistics | p. 83 |
| Data and Data Distributions | p. 87 |
| Averages (Measures of Central Tendency) | p. 91 |
| Measures of Dispersion | p. 96 |
| Probability and the Normal Curve | p. 100 |
| Presentation of Data | p. 108 |
| Comparing Sample Means | p. 115 |
| Student's t-Test | p. 122 |
| Analysis of Variance | p. 129 |
| Power Analysis | p. 139 |
| Multiple Comparisons | p. 145 |
| Chi-Square Test | p. 153 |
| Correlation and Regression | p. 159 |
| Weibull Analysis | p. 166 |
| Ranking Tests | p. 175 |
| Further Reading | p. 183 |
| Index | p. 185 |
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