Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology

Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology

Statistics for dental researchers; part 1: Introduction

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors
Arash Shahravan 1
Mohammad Reza Baneshi 2
1 Associate Professor, Kerman Dental and Oral Diseases Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
2 Research Center for Modeling in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Abstract
Learning statistics is a necessity for dental researchers. Due to daily dental science expansion, dental researchers have to study new papers in recent dental journals to remain up to date. On the other hand, knowing principles of statistics helps better understanding of the articles. Some authors revealed that knowledge of dentists about basic topics of statistics was poor. Therefore, in this series of articles, we will discuss some statistical topics as self-learning tool.
Keywords
Dental researcher
statistics
Epidemiology
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  • Receive Date 03 July 2012
  • Accept Date 12 March 2019