Designed to provide researchers clear and informative insight into techniques of meta-analysis, the Third Edition of Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings is the most comprehensive text on meta-analysis available today. It is the only book that presents a full and usable treatment of the role of study artifacts in distorting study results, as well as methods for correcting results for such biases and errors.
Meta-analysis is arguably the most important methodological innovation in the last thirty-five years, due to its immense impact on the development of cumulative knowledge and professional practice. This text, now in its updated Third Edition, has been revised to cover the newest developments in meta-analysis methods, evaluation, correction, and more. This reader-friendly book is the definitive resource on meta-analysis.
"This text is the primary source text for psychometric meta-analysis methods."
--Emily E. Tanner-Smith,
Vanderbilt University "The key strength of the book is the complete and thorough coverage of psychometric meta-analysis. This technique is not covered in any other meta-analysis text, and is a major contribution to the literature...The meta-analysis field needs to find ways to integrate Hunter and Schmidt's methods into current meta-analysis practice."
--Terri D. Pigott,
Loyola University of Chicago
"This is an important text. It is the only book that presents adequate coverage of psychometric meta-analysis. In addition to its use as a textbook, it is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in meta-analytic studies."
--Steven Pulos,
University of Northern Colorado
Frank L. Schmidt is the Gary F. Fethke Leadership Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management and Organization in the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. He received his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from Purdue University and has been on the faculties of Michigan State and George Washington Universities. He has authored or coauthored seven books and over two-hundred articles and book chapters on measurement, statistics, research methods, individual differences, and personnel selection. Schmidt has published numerous research studies in personnel psychology, primarily in collaboration with John Hunter. Professor Schmidt received (jointly with Hunter) the Distinguished Scientific Award for contributions to applied psychology from the American Psychological Association and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He has also received the Ingram Olkin Award and the Frederick Mosteller Award, both for his contributions to meta-analysis methodology, as well as numerous other prestigious awards, including the Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement award from the American Psychological Association Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; he is a past president of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association.
John E. (Jack) Hunter was a professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois. Hunter coauthored four books and authored or coauthored over two-hundred articles and book chapters on a wide variety of methodological topics, including confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis, measurement theory and methods, statistics, and research methods. He also published numerous research articles on such substantive topics as intelligence, attitude change, the relationship between attitudes and behavior, validity generalization, differential validity and selection fairness, and selection utility. Much of his research on attitudes was in the field of communications, and the American Communications Association named a research award in his honor. Hunter received the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association for his contributions to applied psychology jointly with Frank Schmidt. He also received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, also jointly with Schmidt. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and was a past president of the Midwestern Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology.
