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Quantitative Psychology

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016

  • Focuses on quantitative psychology and covers a broad array of topics and the latest developments in psychometrics and statistics
  • Contributions are selected, revised, expanded, and peer reviewed.
  • Chapters are written by leading experts in the world and promising young researchers
  • Fifth in a series of recent volumes to cover research presented at the annual meetings of the Psychometric Society
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (PROMS, volume 196)

Conference series link(s): IMPS: The Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society

Conference proceedings info: IMPS 2016.

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Table of contents (37 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. A Comparison of Two MCMC Algorithms for the 2PL IRT Model

    • Meng-I Chang, Yanyan Sheng
    Pages 71-79
  3. Finally! A Valid Test of Configural Invariance Using Permutation in Multigroup CFA

    • Terrence D. Jorgensen, Benjamin A. Kite, Po-Yi Chen, Stephen D. Short
    Pages 93-103
  4. Outcries of Dual Scaling: The Key Is Duality

    • Shizuhiko Nishisato
    Pages 105-115
  5. On the Relationship Between Squared Canonical Correlation and Matrix Norm

    • Kentaro Hayashi, Ke-Hai Yuan, Lu Liang
    Pages 141-150
  6. Breaking Through the Sum Scoring Barrier

    • James O. Ramsay, Marie Wiberg
    Pages 151-158
  7. Overestimation of Reliability by Guttman’s λ 4, λ 5, and λ 6 and the Greatest Lower Bound

    • Pieter R. Oosterwijk, L. Andries van der Ark, Klaas Sijtsma
    Pages 159-172
  8. Weighted Guttman Errors: Handling Ties and Two-Level Data

    • Letty Koopman, Bonne J. H. Zijlstra, L. Andries van der Ark
    Pages 183-190

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About this book

This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th to 17th, 2016.


IMPS is one of the largest international meetings focusing on quantitative measurement in psychology, education, and the social sciences, both in terms of participants and number of presentations. The meeting built on the Psychometric Society's mission to share quantitative methods relevant to psychology, addressing a diverse set of psychometric topics including item response theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, time series analysis, mediation analysis, cognitive diagnostic models, and multi-level models.  Selected presenters were invited to revise and expand their contributions and to have them peer reviewed and published in this proceedings volume.
Previous volumes to showcase work from the Psychometric Society’s meetings are New Developments in Quantitative Psychology: Presentations from the 77th Annual Psychometric Society Meeting (Springer, 2013), Quantitative Psychology Research: The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (Springer, 2015), Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014 (Springer, 2015), and Quantitative Psychology Research: The 80th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Beijing, 2015 (Springer, 2016).



Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute for Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    L. Andries van der Ark

  • Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Marie Wiberg

  • Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA

    Steven A. Culpepper, Jeffrey A. Douglas

  • Department of Psychology, The Educational University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wen-Chung Wang

About the editors

L. Andries van der Ark is professor by special appointment in quantitative research methods at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include reliability analysis, nonparametric item response theory, Mokken scale analysis, and marginal models for the analysis of test and questionnaire data.

Marie Wiberg is professor of statistics with a specialty in psychometrics at Umeå University in Sweden. Her research interests include test equating, applied statistics, large scale assessments, and psychometrics in general.


Steven A. Culpepper is associate professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include statistical modeling in the social sciences, Bayesian models and computation, cognitive diagnosis, and alternative standardized testing formats.


Jeffrey A. Douglas is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He conducts research in latent variable analysis with a particular emphasis on item response models and cognitive diagnosis models with applications in educational testing.

Wen-Chung Wang is chair professor of educational and psychological measurement at the Educational University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Rasch measurement, item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, diagnostic classification models, and ipsative data analysis. 


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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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