Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1190 pages
- Published by: North Holland November 27, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0444521038
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0444521033
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.2 x 2 inches
- Weighs: 5 pounds
Product Description
The area of Psychometrics, a field encompassing the statistical methods used in Psychological and educational testing, has become a very important and active area of research, evident from the large body of literature that has been developed in the form of books, volumes and research papers.
Mainstream statisticians also have found profound interest in the field because of its unique nature.
This book presents a state of the art exposition of theoretical, methodological and applied issues in Psychometrics. This book represents a thorough cross section of internationally renowned thinkers who are inventing methods for dealing with recent challenging psychometric problems.
Key Features/
- Emphasis on the most recent developments in the field
- Plenty of real, often complicated, data examples to demonstrate the applications of the statistical techniques
- Information on available software
- Authors from the leading testing companies
- Emphasis on the most recent developments in the field
- Plenty of real, often complicated, data examples to demonstrate the applications of the statistical techniques
- Information on available software
About The Author
C. R. Rao, born in India is one of this century's foremost statisticians, received his education in statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. Rao is currently at Penn State as Eberly Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis. His research has influenced not only statistics, but also the physical, social and natural sciences and engineering.
Sandip Sinharay, a research scientist in the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ, is a recent winner of the Alicia Cascallar Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar awarded by National Council on Measurement in Education. He has worked in numerous projects in ETS, including ones on National Assessment of Educational Progress, mostly on the application of Bayesian methods to educational testing. He presented in numerous conferences on Psychometrics and published papers in the leading journals in Psychometrics.
Reader ReviewsGreat collection of psychometrics articles for someone gathering knowledge in the discipline, as well as for the seasoned professional desiring an in-depth look into the state-of-the-art.
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