Overview
- Provides a unique history of statistics through the work of an important practitioner and professor
- Contains papers by noteworthy working statisticians
- Documents a well-attended conference on the influence of Paul Holland in educational measurement and statistics
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics (LNS, volume 202)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Statistics - Proceedings (LNSP)
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Table of contents (14 papers)
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Paul Holland’s Contributions
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Holland Shaping ETS
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Holland the Berkeley Professor
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Holland Rebuilding ETS
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Holland: From Mentor to Colleague
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About this book
In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades. In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, Looking Back, honoring his contributions to applied and theoretical psychometrics and statistics. Looking Back attracted a large audience that came to pay homage to Paul Holland and to hear presentations by colleagues who worked with him in special ways over those 40+ years. This book contains papers based on these presentations, as well as vignettes provided by Paul Holland before each section.
The papers in this book attest to how Paul Holland's pioneering ideas influenced and continue to influence several fields such as social networks, causal inference, item response theory, equating, and DIF.  He applied statistical thinking to a broad range of ETS activities in test development, statistical analysis, test security, and operations. The original papers contained in this book provide historical context for Paul Holland’s work alongside commentary on some of his major contributions by noteworthy statisticians working today.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Looking Back
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Paul W. Holland
Editors: Neil J. Dorans, Sandip Sinharay
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9389-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-9388-5Published: 15 July 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9389-2Published: 15 July 2011
Series ISSN: 0930-0325
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7186
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Psychometrics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Mathematics, general