Dental Statistics Made Easy

Nigel Smeeton is a Social Statistician at the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, and Visiting Lecturer in the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London. For more than twenty years, he has taught statistics to undergraduate dental and medical students and is currently engaged in the postgraduate teaching of health service staff. His academic work has involved the application of statistical methods to research in stroke, asthma, psychiatry, and adolescent health and behaviour. He has a particular interest in non-parametric statistics, and is co-author of the text Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods , published by CRC Press.

Preface Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Introduction Planning a study Types of study in dental research Sampling Randomised controlled trials Ethical considerations The Normal distribution Diagnostic tests Sampling variation Introduction to hypothesis tests Comparing two means Dealing with proportions and categorical data Comparing several means Regression, correlation and agreement Non-Normally distributed data The choice of sample size Evidence based dentistry Statistical refereeing Appendix Solutions to exercises Index