Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Illinois State University ; (BS 1998) ; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ; (MA 2002, MS 2003, PhD 2004)
Awards	Olkin Award (Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology) 2019
	Scientific career
Fields	Psychology, Statistics
Institutions	Maastricht University
Thesis	Choosing between the fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects model in meta-analysis: an analysis of existing and new model selection methods (2004)
Doctoral advisor	David Budescu
Website	https://www.wvbauer.com/

Wolfgang Viechtbauer is a statistician. He is an associate professor of methodology and statistics at the Maastricht University in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. His most influential work has been focused on the field of meta-analysis and evidence synthesis.

Education

Viechtbauer completed a M.A. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2004) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[1]^[2] His master's thesis was titled Bias of certain variance estimators in meta-analysis and his dissertation was titled Choosing between the fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects model in meta-analysis: an analysis of existing and new model selection methods.^[1]^[2] His doctoral advisor was David Budescu.^[2]

Career

Viechtbauer is an associate professor of methodology and statistics at the Maastricht University in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.^[3]

Selected works

Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2005). "Bias and Efficiency of Meta-Analytic Variance Estimators in the Random-Effects Model". Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 30 (3): 261–293. doi:10.3102/10769986030003261. ISSN 1076-9986. S2CID 122724342.
Roberts, Brent W.; Walton, Kate E.; Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2006). "Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies". Psychological Bulletin. 132 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.132.1.1. ISSN 1939-1455. PMID 16435954.
Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2010). "Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package". Journal of Statistical Software. 36 (3). doi:10.18637/jss.v036.i03. ISSN 1548-7660.
Viechtbauer, Wolfgang; Cheung, Mike W. L. (2010). "Outlier and influence diagnostics for meta-analysis". Research Synthesis Methods. 1 (2): 112–125. doi:10.1002/jrsm.11. PMID 26061377. S2CID 17573692.

References

^ ^a ^b Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2002). Bias of certain variance estimators in meta-analysis (Thesis). OCLC 52367230.
^ ^a ^b ^c Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2004). Choosing between the fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects model in meta-analysis: an analysis of existing and new model selection methods (Thesis). ISBN 978-0-496-14066-4. OCLC 61135330.
^ "W. Viechtbauer -". Maastricht University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

External links

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Wolfgang Viechtbauer publications indexed by Google Scholar

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[:0-1] Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2002). Bias of certain variance estimators in meta-analysis (Thesis). OCLC 52367230.

[:1-2] Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2004). Choosing between the fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects model in meta-analysis: an analysis of existing and new model selection methods (Thesis). ISBN 978-0-496-14066-4. OCLC 61135330.

[3] "W. Viechtbauer -". Maastricht University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

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