SOR 736 - Research 1 (Orthodontics)

1 Credit(s)

The focus of this course is research design and methodology. Some of the course content is measures of central tendency; differences between descriptive and explanatory research; types of observational studies; RCTs; randomization and blinding, CONSTORT 2010; PRISMA; AMSTAR; electronic database searches; type I alpha and type II beta errors; probability and confidence intervals; T-tests; ANOVA; one-tailed v. two-tailed tests; parametric v. non parametric statistics; simple linear regression. Fall semester.