Mark Leonard Davison is an American psychometrician. Davison earned his undergraduate degree from

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in 1970. He completed his doctoral dissertation, titled ''Fitting a Set of Points to a Space Defined by a Second Set: An Extension of Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Models'', at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, where he was advised by Lawrence E. Jones. Davison subsequently taught at the

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as the John P. Yackel Professor in Educational Assessment and Measurement. Davison was chief editor of the academic journal ''

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'' from January 2007 to November 2012. He is a fellow of the

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