Skills, techniques, standards, and principles used to improve the art and symmetry of the teeth and face to improve the appearance as well as the function of the teeth, mouth, and face. (From Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed, p108)
Esthetics, Dental -- history. : The Etruscans and the history of dentistry : the golden smile through the ages / edited by Marshall Joseph Becker and Jean MacIntosh Turfa
A nonparametric method of compiling LIFE TABLES or survival tables. It combines calculated probabilities of survival and estimates to allow for observations occurring beyond a measurement threshold, which are assumed to occur randomly. Time intervals are defined as ending each time an event occurs and are therefore unequal. (From Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1995)
Summarizing techniques used to describe the pattern of mortality and survival in populations. These methods can be applied to the study not only of death, but also of any defined endpoint such as the onset of disease or the occurrence of disease complications
Functions constructed from a statistical model and a set of observed data which give the probability of that data for various values of the unknown model parameters. Those parameter values that maximize the probability are the maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters
Bird populations -- Estimates -- Congresses. : Estimating numbers of terrestrial birds : proceedings of an international symposium held at Asilomar, California, October 26-31, 1980 / editors, C. John Ralph and J. Michael Scott ; sponsors, California Natural Resources Federation ... [and others]
