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 scientific journal called ''

Psychometrika ''Psychometrika'' is the official journal of the Psychometric Society, a professional body devoted to psychometrics and quantitative psychology. The journal covers quantitative methods for measurement and evaluation of human behavior, including ...

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

scientific meeting An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals a ...

Presidents

This is a list of past presidents of the Psychometric Society.Psychometric Society Past Present and Incoming Presidents
Psychometric Society website. Retrieved 2017-03-01. *

Louis Leon Thurstone Louis Leon Thurstone (29 May 1887 – 29 September 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 cont ...

* Edward Thorndike *

J.P. Guilford Joy Paul Guilford (March 7, 1897 – November 26, 1987) was an American psychologist best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the distinction between convergent and divergent production. Developing the views ...

* Truman L. Kelley * Karl J. Holzinger * Jack W. Dunlap * Paul Horst *

Henry E. Garrett Henry Edward Garrett (January 27, 1894 – June 26, 1973) was an American psychologist and segregationist. Garrett was President of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 195 ...

Harold Gulliksen Harold Oliver Gulliksen (July 18, 1903 – October 27, 1996) was an American psychologist. A professor at Princeton University for most of his academic career, Gulliksen pioneered in the field of psychometrics. In 1952 he was elected as a Fellow ...

* 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 readabi ...

* Phillip Justin Rulon * Dorothy Adkins * Quinn McNemar * John C. Flanagan *

Robert L. Thorndike Robert Ladd Thorndike (September 22, 1910 – September 21, 1990) was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive ability, and ...

1952-53 * Lyle V. Jones 1962-63 *

Louis Guttman Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman (February 10, 1916 – October 25, 1987; he, לואיס (אליהו) גוטמן) was an American sociologist and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known primarily for ...

* Joseph Kruskal * 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 19 ...

Jacqueline Meulman Jacqueline Meulman (born 7 July 1954) is a Dutch statistician and professor emerita of Applied Statistics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University. Biography Born in The Hague, Meulman received her master's degree in mathematical ps ...

* David Thissen *

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is a statistician who works as a professor in the Department of Educational Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Alberto Maydeu-Olivares Alberto is the Romance languages, Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic languages, Germanic ''Albert (given name), Albert''. It is used in Italian language, Italian, Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, ...

Ulf Böckenholt Ulf, or Ulv is a masculine name common in Scandinavia and Germany. It derives from the Old Norse word for "wolf" (''úlfr'', see Wulf). The oldest written record of the name's occurrence in Sweden is from a runestone of the 11th century. The ...

* Bengt O. Muthén *

Peter M. Bentler Peter M. Bentler is an American psychologist, statistician, and distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In multivariate analysis and psychometrics, Bentler is the developer of the structural equation modeling softwa ...

* Karl G. Jöreskog * R. Duncan Luce * Joseph Kruskal *

References

External links

The Psychometric Society website
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