List of Contributors. Preface. Part I. 1 Do We Need to Improve Oral Health Research? ( Dominique Declerck and Emmanuel Lesaffre ). 2 Grading Evidence with a Focus on Etiology, Surrogates, and Clinical Devices ( Philippe Hujoel ). 3 The Effective use of Research Data for Evidence-Based Oral Health Care ( Ian Needleman and Helen Worthington ). Part II. 4 Planning a Research Project ( Timothy A. DeRouen and Donald E. Mercante ). 5 How to Carry out Successful Clinical Studies: Lessons from Project Management ( Jocelyne S. Feine, Stephanie D. Wollin and Faahim Rashid ). 6 Design and Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials in Oral Health ( Brian Leroux and Emmanuel Lesaffre ). 7 Epidemiological Oral Health Studies: Aspects of Design and Analysis ( Jimmy Steele and Mark Pearce ). 8 Qualitative Research ( Christophe Bedos, Pierre Pluye, Christine Loignon and Alissa Levine ). 9 Data Validity and Quality ( Finbarr Allen and Jimmy Steele ). Part III. 10 Start with the Basics ( Manal A. Awad, Nico Nagelkerke and Emmanuel Lesaffre ). 11 Statistical Methods for Studying Associations Between Variables ( Brian G. Leroux ). 12 Assessing Accuracy of Oral Health Diagnostic Tests ( Todd A. Alonzo and Peter J. Giannini ). Part IV. 13 Analysis of Correlated Responses ( Melissa D. Begg ). 14 Missing Data and Informative Cluster Sizes ( Stuart A. Gansky and John M. Neuhaus ). 15 Failure Time Analysis ( Thomas A. Gerds, Vibeke Qvist, Jorg R. Strub, Christian B. Pipper, Thomas H. Scheike and Niels Keiding ). 16 Misclassification and Measurement Error in Oral Health ( Helmut Kuchenhoff ). 17 Statistical Genetics ( Amy D. Anderson ). 18 The Bayesian Approach ( Emmanuel Lesaffre, Arno st Kom'arek and Alejandro Jara ). Part V. 19 Examples from Oral Health Epidemiology: The Signal Tandmobiel and Smile for Life studies ( Dominique Declerck, Emmanuel Lesaffre, Roos Leroy and Jackie Vanobbergen ). 20 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 ). Index.
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