1. Edition - March 2009
71.90 Euro
2009. 408 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-51792-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51792-5 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Written to help readers understand and deal with the statistical complexity of oral health research, Statistical Methods in Oral Health Research discusses the unique features of data arising from oral health research and comments on research methods common to both oral health and biostatistics research. Featuring coverage of methodological topics, including the design of an Oral Health Clinical Trial and the design of an epidemiological study, this accessible guide will appeal to statisticians, applied statisticians, and epidemiologists as well as oral health researchers.

From the contents
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, J¨org R. Strub, Christian B. Pipper, Thomas H. Scheike and Niels Keiding).

16 Misclassification and Measurement Error in Oral Health (Helmut K¨uchenhoff).

17 Statistical Genetics (Amy D. Anderson).

18 The Bayesian Approach (Emmanuel Lesaffre, ArnoÇst 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.