title: Psychometric Society
text: # Psychometric Society
  
  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, concentrating on the area of statistics.
  
  The society also conducts an annual scientific meeting.
  
  ## Presidents
  
  This is a list of past presidents of the Psychometric Society.
  
  * Louis Leon Thurstone
  * Edward Thorndike
  * J.P. Guilford
  * Truman L. Kelley
  * Karl J. Holzinger
  * Jack W. Dunlap
  * Paul Horst
  * Henry E. Garrett
  * Harold Gulliksen
  * Edward E. Cureton
  * Harold A. Edgerton
  * Irving Lorge
  * Phillip Justin Rulon
  * Dorothy Adkins
  * Quinn McNemar
  * John C. Flanagan
  * Robert L. Thorndike 1952-53
  * Lyle V. Jones 1962-63
  * Louis Guttman
  * Joseph Kruskal
  * Quinn McNemar
  * Ben J. Winer
  * Shizuhiko Nishisato
  * Fumiko Samejima
  * Frederick Mosteller
  * Jacqueline Meulman
  * David Thissen
  * Sophia Rabe-Hesketh
  * Alberto Maydeu-Olivares
  * Ulf Böckenholt
  * Bengt O. Muthén
  * Peter M. Bentler
  * Karl G. Jöreskog
  * R. Duncan Luce
  * Joseph Kruskal
  * Robert L. Thorndike
  