Biography:Wolfgang Viechtbauer

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Short description: Statistician
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
NationalityGerman
Alma materIllinois State University
(BS 1998)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
(MA 2002, MS 2003, PhD 2004)
AwardsOlkin Award (Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology) 2019
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, Statistics
InstitutionsMaastricht University
ThesisChoosing between the fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects model in meta-analysis: an analysis of existing and new model selection methods (2004)
Doctoral advisorDavid Budescu
Websitehttps://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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (2002). Bias of certain variance estimators in meta-analysis (Thesis). OCLC 52367230.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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 -". https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/wolfgang.viechtbauer. 

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