Research Writing in Dentistry provides you with a uniquely practical guide to selecting, designing, and writing up a research project. Of particular use to the dental student, both pre- and post-doctoral, this is a no-nonsense guide that presents concrete advice and information that can be absorbed quickly and effectively. By asking simple questions, this useful resource enables you to develop, analyze and present a program of research work.
It begins with the basic principles of research: what it is and how to select a topic and plan a program. It then moves on to discuss study design, methods and materials, presenting results and undertaking a literature review. It concludes with a section on basic statistics and analysis. Precepts and guidance are illustrated throughout with examples from dentistry.
Author(s): J. Anthony von Fraunhofer
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 200
Research Writing
in Dentistry......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
PART I ORGANIZING, WRITING, AND PERFORMING DENTAL RESEARCH......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 15
2 What Is Research?......Page 17
3 Research Planning......Page 21
4 Performing Research......Page 25
5 How to Design a Research Study......Page 30
6 Non-Bench Research......Page 40
7 Sources of Error and Avoiding the “Whoops” Factor......Page 48
8 Reports, Theses, Dissertations, and Scientific Papers......Page 52
9 Introduction and Literature Review......Page 57
10 Methods and Materials (Experimental)......Page 67
11 Results......Page 69
12 The Discussion......Page 74
13 Conclusions......Page 80
14 The Abstract......Page 82
15 Writing Style and Technique......Page 85
16 Getting Published......Page 88
PART II STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS......Page 93
17 Basic Statistics 83......Page 95
18 Data and Data Distributions......Page 99
19 Averages (Measures of Central Tendency)......Page 103
20 Measures of Dispersion......Page 108
21 Probability and the Normal Curve......Page 112
22 Presentation of Data......Page 120
23 Comparing Sample Means......Page 127
24 Student’s t-Test......Page 134
25 Analysis of Variance......Page 141
26 Power Analysis......Page 151
27 Multiple Comparisons......Page 157
28 Chi-Square Test......Page 165
29 Correlation and Regression......Page 171
30 Weibull Analysis......Page 178
31 Ranking Tests......Page 187
Appendix—Further Reading......Page 195
Index......Page 197
