The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences. The society publishes a

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called '' Psychometrika'', concentrating on the area of statistics. Psychometrika
Springer Science+Business Media. 2013. The society also conducts an annual scientific meeting.

Presidents

This is a list of past presidents of the Psychometric Society.Psychometric Society Past Present and Incoming Presidents
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Louis Leon Thurstone Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 29, 1955) was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his co ...

Edward Thorndike Edward Lee Thorndike ( – ) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to his " theory of connectionism" and helped ...

* J.P. Guilford * Truman L. Kelley * Karl J. Holzinger * Jack W. Dunlap * Paul Horst * Henry E. Garrett * Harold Gulliksen * Edward E. Cureton * Harold A. Edgerton *

Irving Lorge Irving Daniel Lorge (April 19, 1905 – January 23, 1961) was an American psychologist known for his work in psychometrics. His research focused on a wide variety of topics, including the measurement of giftedness, human intelligence, and readab ...

* Phillip Justin Rulon * Dorothy Adkins * Quinn McNemar * John C. Flanagan * Robert L. Thorndike 1952-53 * Lyle V. Jones 1962-63 *

Louis Guttman Louis Guttman (; February 10, 1916 – October 25, 1987) was an American sociologist and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known primarily for his work in social statistics. Biography Louis ( ...

Joseph Kruskal Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (; January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. Personal life Kruskal was born to a Jewish family in New York City to a successful fu ...

* Quinn McNemar * Ben J. Winer *Shizuhiko Nishisato *Fumiko Samejima *

Frederick Mosteller Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 1957 to 1 ...

* Jacqueline Meulman * David Thissen * Sophia Rabe-Hesketh * Alberto Maydeu-Olivares * Ulf Böckenholt * Bengt O. Muthén * Peter M. Bentler * Karl G. Jöreskog * R. Duncan Luce *

* Robert L. Thorndike

References

External links

The Psychometric Society website
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