Hermanus Johannes "Herman J." Adèr (born May 20, 1940Herman J. Adèr biography
at ''jvank.nl''. Accessed October 8, 2013.) is a Dutch statistician/

methodologist In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...

and consultant at the

Vrije Universiteit The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

, the

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and the

University of Stavanger The University of Stavanger (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Stavanger,'' UiS) is a university located in Stavanger, Norway. UiS was established in 2005 when the former Stavanger University College (''Høgskolen i Stavanger''; HiS) received univer ...

, known for work on Methodological Modelling and Social Research Methodology.

Biography

Born in

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, Adèr received his BA in psychology and social science methods, and his MA in numerical mathematics, both from the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

mid-1960s. Later in 1995 there he also received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Methodological knowledge : notation and implementation in expert systems." After some years teaching mathematics, he returned to the academia in 1971, where he was faculty member at the Faculty of Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit. In 1993, he moved to the

, where he was associate professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics until 2005. Since the 1980s, Adèr as researcher and consultant affiliated with the

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Cou ...

in Amsterdam. Since 2006, he is advisor at the Reading Center of the

. Since 2008, he is also director of Johannes van Kessel Publishing. And from 2008 to 2012, he was consultant at the Trimbos Institute for Social Science Research in Utrecht.

Publications

Adèr has authored and co-authored numerous publications in his field of expertise.Herman J. Adèr
at Google Scholar. * 1995. ''Methodological knowledge : notation and implementation in expert systems''. Thesis University of Amsterdam. * 1999. ''Research Methodology in the Social, Behavioural and Life Sciences''. Herman J. Adèr and

Gideon J. Mellenbergh Gideon Jan (Don) Mellenbergh (9 August 1938 – 27 March 2021) was a Dutch psychologist, who was Professor of Psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam, known for his contribution in the field of psychometrics, and Social Research Met ...

(Eds.) London: Sage. * 2003. ''RM 2003 : proceedings of the second workshop on research methodology, June 25–27, 2003, VU University, Amsterdam''. Herman J. Adèr and

(Eds.) * 2008
Advising on Research Methods: A consultant's companion
'' Herman J. Adèr,

with contributions by David J. Hand. Huizen, The Netherlands: van Kessel. p. 244. Articles, a selection: * Flier, H. van der,

Mellenbergh, G.J. Gideon Jan (Don) Mellenbergh (9 August 1938 – 27 March 2021) was a Dutch psychologist, who was Professor of Psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam, known for his contribution in the field of psychometrics, and Social research#Meth ...

, Ader, H.J. & Wijn, M. (1984) "The iterative item bias selection method." ''Journal of Educational Measurement'', 21, 131–145. * Barkhof, Frederik, et al. "Comparison of MRI criteria at first presentation to predict conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis." Brain 120.11 (1997): 2059–2069. * Geerlings, M. I., Jonker, C., Bouter, L. M., Adèr, H. J., & Schmand, B. (1999). Association between memory complaints and incident Alzheimer's disease in elderly people with normal baseline cognition. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156(4), 531–537. * Bleiker, E., Pouwer, F., van der Ploeg, H. M., Leer, J. W. H., & Adèr, H. J. (2000). Psychological distress two years after diagnosis of breast cancer: frequency and prediction. Patient Education and Counseling, 40(3), 209–217.

References

External links

Herman J. Adèr
homepage with biography and downloads {{DEFAULTSORT:Ader, Herman J. 1940 births Living people Dutch statisticians University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Academic staff of the University of Stavanger Scientists from Amsterdam