Statistical and methodological aspects of oral health research / 
edited by Emmanuel Lesaffre ... [et al.] 
 - Chichester, West Sussex :  Wiley,  c2009 
 - xvii, 390 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Statistics in practice .
 - Statistics in practice .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Do we need to improve oral health research? / Dominique Declerck and Emmanuel Lesaffre -- Grading evidence with a focus on etiology, surrogates, and clinical devices / Philippe Hujoel -- The effective use of research data for evidence-based oral health care / Ian Needleman and Helen Worthington -- Planning a research project / Timothy A. DeRouen and Donald E. Mercante -- How to carry out successful clinical studies: lessons from project management / Jocelyne S. Feine, Stephanie D. Wollin and Faahim Rashid -- Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials in oral health / Brian Leroux and Emmanuel Lesaffre -- Epidemiological oral health studies: aspects of design and analysis / Jimmy Steele and Mark Pearce -- Qualitative research / Christophe Bedos ... [et al.] -- Data validity and quality / Finbarr Allen and Jimmy Steele -- Start with the basics / Manal A. Awad, Nico Nagelkerke and Emmanuel Lesaffre -- Statistical methods for studying associations between variables / Brian G. Leroux -- Assessing accuracy of oral health diagnostic tests / Todd A. Alonzo and Peter J. Giannini -- Analysis of correlated responses / Melissa D. Begg -- Missing data and informative cluster sizes / Stuart A. Gansky and John M. Neuhaus -- Failure time analysis / Thomas A. Gerds ... [et al.] -- Misclassification and measurement error in oral health / Helmut Kuchenhoff -- Statistical genetics / Amy D. Anderson -- The Bayesian approach / Emmanuel Lesaffre, Arnost Komarek and Alejandro Jara -- Examples from oral health epidemiology: the signal tandmobiel and smile for life studies / Dominique Declerck ... [et al.] -- Subantimicrobial-dose doxycycline effects on alveolar bone loss in postmenopausal women: example of a randomized controlled clinical trial / Julie A. Stoner and Jeffrey B. Payne 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780470517925 (cloth)  RM629.10 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dental Research<br/>Health Services Research--methods<br/>Oral Health<br/>Research design<br/>Statistics as Topic