The SAGE Sourcebook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research

Andrew Hayes (Ph.D., Cornell University; B.A., San Jose State University) holds joint appointments in Communication and Psychology at The Ohio State University. His training is in quantitative psychology and his specialties are research methodology, psychometrics, data analysis, and the application of psy-chological knowledge and theory to communication processes. He has published in the statistical meth-odology, social psychology, and public opinion literatures and is author of the forthcoming book Statisti-cal Methods for Communication Science (LEA). Michael D. Slater (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1988) is Social and Behavioral Science Distinguished Professor at the School of Communication, The Ohio State University. He has served as principal investigator of NIH-funded studies of substance abuse prevention efforts, and impact of alcohol-related news coverage, alcohol advertisements, and alcohol warnings as well as conducting investigations of persuasion and media effects. Leslie B. Snyder (Ph.D. & M.A,, Stanford University; B.A., State University of New York at Albany) is Professor of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Her research assesses the impact of different types of media and messages, utilizing surveys, experiments, and meta-analyses. Recently, she has been a principal investigator of an NIH-funded study on the effects of alcohol advertisements on youth drinking, and has conducted meta-analyses of the effectiveness of communication campaigns on health topics in the U.S. and in developing countries.