Table of Contents:
  • 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 J. Peter Giannini
  • Analysis of correlated responses / Melissa D. Begg
  • Missing data and informative cluster sizes / Stuart A. Gansky
  • Failure time analysis / Thomas A Gerds ... [et al.]
  • Misclassification and measurement error in oral health / Helmut Küchenhoff
  • Statistical genetics / Amy D. Anderson
  • The Bayesian approach / Emmanuel Lesaffre, Arnošt Komárek, 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.