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According to Wikipedia, Howard Charles Wainer is an American statistician, past principal research scientist at the Educational Testing Service, adjunct professor of statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and author, known for his contributions in the fields of statistics, psychometrics, and statistical graphics.

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Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer (2000) (1128)
Differential item functioning (1994) (1020)
Estimating Coefficients in Linear Models: It Don't Make No Nevermind (1976) (671)
Item Clusters and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Case for Testlets (1987) (664)
Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models. (1993) (614)
Use of item response theory in the study of group differences in trace lines. (1988) (428)
A Bayesian random effects model for testlets (1999) (409)
ON THE RELIABILITY OF TESTLET‐BASED TESTS (1991) (323)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications (2007) (283)
Understanding Graphs and Tables (1992) (283)
The Rasch Model as Additive Conjoint Measurement (1979) (260)
Computerized adaptive testing: A primer, 2nd ed. (2000) (255)
COMBINING MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEST SCORES: TOWARD A MARXIST THEORY OF TEST CONSTRUCTION (1992) (239)
Robust Regression & Outlier Detection (1988) (199)
HOW TO DISPLAY DATA BADLY (1982) (188)
Sex differences in performance on the mathematics section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test: A bidirectional validity study. (1992) (180)
A General Bayesian Model for Testlets: Theory and Applications (2002) (173)
How Is Reliability Related to the Quality of Test Scores? What Is the Effect of Local Dependence on Reliability? (1998) (172)
Some standard errors in item response theory (1982) (170)
On the sensitivity of regression and regressors. (1978) (170)
Testlet Response Theory: An Analog for the 3PL Model Useful in Testlet-Based Adaptive Testing (2000) (149)
USING A NEW STATISTICAL MODEL FOR TESTLETS TO SCORE TOEFL (2000) (145)
Adjusting for differential base rates: Lord's paradox again. (1991) (141)
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (1998) (139)
Item Response Theory, Item Calibration, and Proficiency Estimation (2000) (138)
Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot (1997) (131)
Are Tests Comprising Both Multiple‐Choice and Free‐Response Items Necessarily Less Unidimensional Than Multiple‐Choice Tests?An Analysis of Two Tests (1994) (125)
Toward a Psychometrics for Testlets (1989) (121)
TWO ADDITIONS TO HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS (1972) (121)
Differential Testlet Functioning: Definitions and Detection (1991) (120)
Drawing inferences from self-selected samples (1986) (117)
Precision and Differential Item Functioning on a Testlet-Based Test: The 1991 Law School Admissions Test as an Example (1995) (117)
GRAPHICAL DATA ANALYSIS (1981) (116)
Robust Statistics: A Survey and Some Prescriptions (1976) (106)
ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF MULTIPLE‐CHOICE, CONSTRUCTED‐RESPONSE, AND EXAMINEE‐SELECTED ITEMS ON TWO ACHIEVEMENT TESTS1 (1993) (96)
An Empirical Inquiry concerning Human Understanding of Two-Variable Color Maps (1980) (94)
Augmented Scores-"Borrowing Strength" to Compute Scores Based on Small Numbers ofltems (2001) (86)
Estimating Ability With the Wrong Model (1987) (86)
Skeletal Maturity:The Knee Joint As a Biological Indicator (1976) (83)
Three steps towards robust regression (1976) (81)
SOME PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS WHEN CONVERTING A LINEARLY ADMINISTERED TEST TO AN ADAPTIVE FORMAT (1992) (81)
On the Past and Future of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (2002) (79)
Two statistical paradoxes in the interpretation of group differences: Illustrated with medical school admission and licensing data (2004) (78)
Shaping Up the Practice of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (2003) (77)
One cheer for null hypothesis significance testing. (1999) (72)
Robust estimation of ability in the Rasch model (1980) (68)
MML and EAP Estimation in Testlet-based Adaptive Testing (2000) (65)
Reliability and Measurement Precision (2000) (65)
Improving Tabular Displays, With NAEP Tables as Examples and Inspirations (1997) (61)
Alternative Displays for Communicating NAEP Results: A Redesign and Validity Study (1999) (56)
A Test of Graphicacy in Children (1980) (56)
Some Paths Toward Making Praxis Scores More Useful (1998) (55)
Evidence That Smaller Schools Do Not Improve Student Achievement (2006) (53)
On Examinee Choice in Educational Testing (1994) (53)
Five Pitfalls Encountered While Trying to Compare States on Their SAT Scores. (1986) (48)
Visual Revelations (2000) (47)
USER'S GUIDE FOR SCORIGHT (VERSION 3.0): A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SCORING TESTS BUILT OF TESTLETS INCLUDING A MODULE FOR COVARIATE ANALYSIS (2004) (47)
Eelworms, Bullet Holes, and Geraldine Ferraro: Some Problems With Statistical Adjustment and Some Solutions (1989) (47)
The Centercept: An Estimable and Meaningful Regression Parameter (2000) (47)
The Most Dangerous Equation (2021) (45)
How Reliable are TOEFL Scores? (1997) (45)
Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures (2004) (45)
Statistical Graphics: Mapping the Pathways of Science (2001) (41)
How Well Can We Compare Scores on Test Forms That Are Constructed by Examinees Choice (1994) (40)
THE FUTURE OF ITEM ANALYSIS (1988) (38)
Visual Revelations (2006) (37)
Caveats, Pitfalls, and Unexpected Consequences of Implementing Large-Scale Computerized Testing (2000) (37)
Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies (2011) (35)
CATs: Whither and whence (2000) (34)
Graphical Visions from William Playfair to John Tukey (1990) (34)
A Review of Estimation Procedures for the Rasch Model with an Eye toward Longish Tests (1980) (33)
Statistical graphics: mapping the pathways of science. (2000) (33)
Confidence Envelopes for Item Response Theory (1983) (32)
User's Guide for SCORIGHT (Version 3.0): A Computer Program for Scoring Tests Built of Testlets Including a Module for Covariate Analysis. Research Report. ETS RR-04-49. (2005) (32)
Computerized Adaptive Testing (2010) (31)
DIFFERENTIAL TESTLET FUNCTIONING DEFINITIONS AND DETECTION (1991) (31)
The Suspended Rootogram and other Visual Displays: An Empirical Validation (1974) (30)
COMPARING THE INCOMPARABLE: AN ESSAY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BIG ASSUMPTIONS AND SCANT EVIDENCE (1999) (29)
Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics on Value-Added Assessment (2004) (29)
A Handbook for Data Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences: Statistical Issues (1993) (29)
How should we screen for breast cancer? (2011) (28)
Computerized adaptive testing: A primer (second edition) (2004) (28)
Speed vs reaction time as a measure of cognitive performance (1977) (28)
A Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed (2012) (27)
Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display (2009) (27)
Multidimensional Scaling of Concept Learning in an Introductory Course. (1974) (27)
Principals of Modern Psychological Measurement : A Festschrift for Frederic M. Lord (1983) (25)
On “State Education Statistics” (1985) (25)
14 Conversations About Three Things (2010) (25)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: INTRODUCTION TO TESTLETS (2007) (24)
Rescuing Computerized Testing by Breaking Zipf's Law (2000) (24)
Was It Ethnic and Social-Class Bias or Statistical Artifact? Logical and Empirical Evidence against Freedle's Method for Reestimating SAT Scores (2005) (24)
Pyramid Power: Searching for an Error in Test Scoring with 830,000 Helpers (1981) (23)
Scaling and Equating (2000) (22)
A Comparison of the Performance of Simulated Hierarchical and Linear Testlets (1992) (22)
HOW WELL CAN WE EQUATE TEST FORMS THAT ARE CONSTRUCTED BY EXAMINEES?1 (1991) (22)
The SAT as a Social Indicator: A Pretty Bad Idea (1986) (21)
Three Steps Toward Robust Regression. (1976) (21)
On the Viability of Some Untestable Assumptions in Equating Exams that Allow Examinee Choice. (1995) (21)
FITTING ITEM CHARACTERISTIC CURVES WITH SPLINE FUNCTIONS (1984) (20)
The commercial and political atlas and Statistical breviary (2005) (19)
A Simple Equation to Predict a Subscore's Value. (2014) (19)
Late Elongation of the Cranial Base (1977) (18)
Making newspaper graphs fit to print (1980) (18)
Building Algebra Testlets: A Comparison of Hierarchical and Linear Structures. (1991) (17)
Visual Revelations: Tabular Presentation (1993) (17)
That's Funny... (2009) (17)
For want of a nail: Why unnecessarily long tests may be impeding the progress of Western civilisation (2015) (17)
Do Adjusted Subscores Lack Validity? Don’t Blame the Messenger (2011) (17)
A Bayesian Method for Studying DIF: A Cautionary Tale Filled With Surprises and Delights (2008) (16)
Some multivariate displays for NAEP results (1997) (15)
Does Spending Money on Education Help? A Reaction to the Heritage Foundation and the "Wall Street Journal.". (1993) (15)
Social Indicators III: Selected Data on Social Conditions and Trends in the United States. (1983) (15)
Extracting Sunbeams From Cucumbers (2011) (15)
A PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS OF MODELS AND MEN (1968) (15)
On the Robustness of a Class of Naive Estimators (1979) (15)
Minority Contributions to the Sat Score Turnaround: an Example of Simpson’s Paradox (1986) (14)
Two Statistical Paradoxes in the Interpretation of Group Differences (2004) (14)
A Bayesian Method for Evaluating Passing Scores: The PPoP Curve (2005) (14)
Drawing Inferences from Self-Selected Samples. (1992) (13)
Senatorial decision making: I. The determination of structure (1973) (13)
Multivariate Semi-Metric Smoothing in Multiple Prediction (1975) (13)
Visual Revelations (2002) (13)
Visual Revelations: Who Was Playfair? (1997) (13)
The Aptitude–Achievement Function: An Aid for Allocating Educational Resources, with an Advanced Placement Example (2000) (13)
Item and Test Bias (2005) (12)
Resizing Triathlons for Fairness (1994) (12)
When Jackknifing fails (or does it?) (1975) (12)
MINORITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SAT SCORE TURNAROUND: AN EXAMPLE OF SIMPSON'S PARADOX (1985) (12)
Assessing Time Trends in Sex Differences in Swimming & Running (2000) (12)
HOW UNIDIMENSIONAL ARE TESTS COMPRISING BOTH MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND FREE-RESPONSE ITEMS? AN ANALYSIS OF TWO TESTS1 (1993) (12)
ON MULTIVARIATE DISPLAY (1983) (11)
Value-Added Models to Evaluate Teachers: A Cry for Help (2011) (11)
The Most Dangerous Profession: A Note on Nonsampling Error (1999) (11)
SOME STATISTICAL AND LOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WHEN RESCORING TESTS (1998) (11)
On the assessment of skeletal maturity. (1979) (11)
William Playfair: A Daring Worthless Fellow (1997) (11)
27 Value-Added Modeling (2006) (11)
On Assessing the Quality of Physicians’ Clinical Judgment (2004) (10)
REVIEW OF COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING: A PRIMER (Second Edition) Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer (Second Edition) (2001) (10)
The Case for Bayesian Methods when Investigating Test Fraud (2016) (10)
ON THE PAST AND FUTURE OF NULL HYPOTHESIS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING1 (2001) (10)
A Selection of Selection Anomalies (1998) (10)
THE VALIDITY OF THE SAT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMA (1991) (10)
ESTIMATING ABILITY WITH THREE ITEM RESPONSE MODELS WHEN THE MODELS ARE WRONG AND THEIR PARAMETERS ARE INACCURATE (1984) (10)
Sources of Uncertainty Often Ignored in Adjusting State Mean SAT Scores for Differential Participation Rates: The Rules of the Game (1990) (10)
Rorschach revisited: a new look at an old test. (1976) (9)
How accurately can we assess changes in minority performance on the SAT (1988) (9)
When Can We Improve Subscores by Making Them Shorter?: The Case Against Subscores with Overlapping Items (2014) (9)
SEX DIFFERENCES IN PERFORMANCE ON THE MATHEMATICS SECTION OF THE SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST: A BIDIRECTIONAL VALIDITY STUDY1 (1991) (9)
The Dimensions of De Maupassant: A Multidimensional Analysis of Students' Perception of Literature (1972) (9)
Hip psychometrics (2009) (9)
Influence-enhanced scatterplots. (1981) (8)
Anderson's Personality-Trait Words Rated by Men and Women as a Function of Stimulus Sex (1969) (8)
Was there One Distractor too Many? (1984) (8)
Using Trilinear Plots for NAEP State Data (1996) (8)
A Tale of Two Tests (and of Two Examinees) (2016) (8)
TUTORIAL IN BIOSTATISTICS: Hip psychometrics (2009) (8)
CAN A TEST BE TOO RELIABLE (1985) (8)
Prologue—How the Following Article Came to Be (1992) (7)
How Much Does Extra Time on the SAT Help? (2004) (7)
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication (2021) (7)
Ignorance of how sample size affects statistical variation has created havoc for nearly a millennium (2007) (7)
Teacher’s Corner: Toward a Coherent View of Reliability in Test Theory (1997) (7)
ARE WE CORRECTING FOR GUESSING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION (1981) (7)
The Cut-Score Operating Function: A New Tool to Aid in Standard Setting (2017) (6)
HOW RELIABLE IS THE TOEFL TEST (1997) (6)
THE GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF SIMULATION RESULTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE COMPARISON OF ROBUST IRT ESTIMATORS OF ABILITY (1984) (6)
MANAGING THE INFLUENCE OF DIF FROM BIG ITEMS: THE 1988 ADVANCED PLACEMENT HISTORY TEST AS AN EXAMPLE (1996) (6)
Using Testlet Response Theory to analyze data from a survey of attitude change among breast cancer survivors (2010) (6)
Until proven guilty: False positives and the war on terror (2008) (6)
Notes: The Validity of the SAT at the University of Hawaii: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma (1993) (6)
A Multidimensional Analysis of School Satisfaction (1971) (6)
DOES SPENDING MONEY ON EDUCATION HELP (1993) (6)
Toward a Coherent View of Reliability in Test Theory. (1997) (6)
Piecewise regression: a simplified procedure. (1971) (6)
The Survival of the Fittists (2012) (6)
A Study of Display Methods for NAEP Results: I. Tables. Program Statistics Research. Technical Report No. 95-1. (1995) (6)
A Guide for Setting the Cut-Scores to Minimize Weighted Classification Errors in Test Batteries (2017) (5)
Is the Akebono School Failing Its Best Students? A Hawaiian Adventure in Regression (2005) (5)
EELWORMS, BULLET HOLES, AND GERALDINE FERRARO (1987) (5)
Publication Delays in Statistics Journals (1998) (5)
A century and a half of moral statistics in the United Kingdom: Variations on Joseph Fletcher's thematic maps (2012) (5)
Senatorial decision making: II. Prediction (1973) (5)
Visual Revelations: Visual Aids When Comparing an Apple to the Stars (1994) (5)
A Parameterization of Recidivism (1981) (5)
ON STATE EDUCATION STATISTICS (1984) (5)
MAKING ESSAY TEST SCORES FAIRER WITH STATISTICS (1982) (5)
Visual Revelations (2000) (5)
USER'S GUIDE FOR SCORIGHT (VERSION 1.2): A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SCORING TESTS BUILT OF TESTLETS (2001) (5)
Predicting the outcome of the senate trial of Richard M. Nixon (1974) (5)
CAN WE ACCURATELY ASSESS CHANGES IN MINORITY PERFORMANCE ON THE SAT (1987) (5)
Predicting the Impact of Simple and Compound Life Change Events (1978) (5)
Shopping for Colleges When What We Know Ain't (2005) (5)
Cheating: Some Ways to Detect it Badly (2014) (5)
Responsum (1989) (4)
Visual Revelations: Scaling the Heights (and Widths) (1996) (4)
True score theory (2007) (4)
Visual Revelations (2007) (4)
CATS, TESTLETS, AND TEST CONSTRUCTION: A RATIONALE FOR PUTTING TEST DEVELOPERS BACK INTO CAT (1986) (4)
A Psychometric Cicada: Educational Measurement Returns (2007) (4)
AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE ON THE SAT (1983) (4)
Graphical Presentation of Longitudinal Data (2005) (4)
Visual Revelations (2004) (4)
SOME SUPPORTING EVIDENCE FOR LORD'S GUIDELINE FOR ESTIMATING ‘C’1 (1985) (4)
Visual Revelations (2002) (4)
TREBIG: A 360/75 FORTRAN program for three-mode factor analysts designed for big data sets (1974) (4)
ASSESSING TIME TRENDS IN SEX DIFFERENCES IN SWIMMING AND RUNNING (2000) (4)
Personality and group impression formation as a function of the amount of overlap in evaluative meaning of the stimulus elements. (1970) (3)
Nonresponse in Declared Ethnicity and the Identification of Differentially Functioning Items. Program Statistics Research, Technical Report No. 89-89. (1982) (3)
On Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Tests. (1983) (3)
Visual Revelations: Stigler's Law of Eponymy and Marey's Train Schedule: Did Serjev Do It Before Ibry, and What About Jules Petiet? (2013) (3)
Visual Revelations: Elegance, Grace, Impact, and Graphical Displays (1991) (3)
Visual Revelations (2001) (3)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: Introduction (2007) (3)
A centenary celebration for Will Burtin: A pioneer of scientific visualization (2009) (3)
How Much Is Enough? A Reply to Sinharay, Haberman, and Boughton (2015) (3)
Academic Performance of New Jersey's Public Schools (1994) (3)
Visual Revelations: A Rose by Another Name (1995) (3)
Visual Revelations (2007) (3)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: Testlet nonresponse theory: dealing with missing data (2007) (3)
Some Methodological Comments on Evaluating Maps (1977) (3)
The Bayesian flip: Correcting the prosecutor's fallacy (2015) (3)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: What's a testlet and why do we need them? (2007) (3)
Toward the Measurement and Prediction of Victim Proneness (1983) (3)
Looking at blood sugar (2008) (3)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: The 3-PL Bayesian testlet model (2007) (3)
The Great Migration: A Graphics Novel (2017) (3)
XTREE: A Multivariate Graphical Icon Applicable in the Evaluation of Statistical Estimators (1986) (3)
Confidence Envelopes for Monotonic Functions: Principles, Derivations, and Examples. (1983) (3)
Visual Revelations: Moral Statistics and the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher (2012) (3)
Editorial: A Catch-22 in Assigning Primary Delegates (2007) (3)
Visual Revelations (2000) (3)
Reflections on a Too Extreme Idea (2013) (3)
How Can We Estimate the Death Toll from COVID-19? (2020) (3)
On the Academic Achievement of New Jersey's Public School Children: I. Fourth and Eighth Grade Mathematics in 1992. Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 94-3. (1994) (3)
ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HAWAII'S PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN: I. FOURTH AND EIGHTH GRADE MATHEMATICS IN 1992 (1994) (3)
Visual Revelations (2004) (3)
THE OTHER TAIL (1973) (3)
PLOTTING IN THE MODERN WORLD (1986) (2)
A Testlet-Based Examination of the LSAT (2012) (2)
Representing Points in Many Dimensions by Trees and Castles: Comment (1981) (2)
Using variance as a discriminator in lie detection. (1974) (2)
A Computer Program for Simulation Evaluation of IRT Ability Estimators. (1984) (2)
Visual Revelations (2000) (2)
Visual Revelations (2008) (2)
Profiles in Research: Fumiko Samejima. (2007) (2)
Visual Revelations: Graphical Answers to Scientific Questions (1993) (2)
Graphical Answers to Scientific Questions (1997) (2)
CHOOSING: A TEST1 (1992) (2)
Visual Revelations (2002) (2)
The Federal Rules of Evidence (2012) (2)
An Adaptive Algebra Test: A Testlet-Based, Hierarchically-Structured Test with Validity-Based Scoring. Technical Report No. 90-92. (1990) (2)
Visual Revelations (2009) (2)
Visual Revelations: Why Playfair? (1996) (2)
The Route to the USMLE: The Shibboleth of Modern Medical Licensure (2014) (2)
Sex and Sports: A Rejoinder (2000) (2)
Visual Revelations: Scaling the Market (1999) (2)
Some Comments on the Ad Hoc Committee's Critique of the Massachusetts Teacher Tests (1999) (2)
Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare (2013) (2)
[Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis]: Comment: Deja View (1987) (2)
Elegance, Grace, Impact, and Graphical Displays (1997) (2)
Visual Revelations (2001) (2)
Schrödinger’s cat and the conception of probability in item response theory (2010) (2)
TOWARD A COHERENT VIEW OF RELIABILITY IN TEST THEORY (1998) (2)
Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk (2008) (2)
Visual Revelations: Happiness and Causal Inference (2014) (2)
The stanchions of statistics (2016) (2)
Three Graphic Memorials (1997) (2)
Visual Revelations: Making Readable Overhead Displays (1993) (2)
Visual Revelations (2003) (2)
THE FIRST FOUR MILLENNIA OF MENTAL TESTING: FROM ANCIENT CHINA TO THE COMPUTER AGE (1987) (2)
Visual Aids When Comparing an Apple to the Stars (1997) (1)
Visual Revelations: Cheating: Some Ways to Detect It Badly (2012) (1)
HOW ARE WE DOING?: A REVIEW OF SOCIAL INDICATORS III (1982) (1)
Practical Questions in the Use of DIF Statistics in Test Development: Michael Zieky (2012) (1)
Edwards & Cummings' "Fuzzy Truncation Model" Is a Step in the Right Direction (1990) (1)
Visual Revelations: Waiting for Achilles (2012) (1)
Visual Revelations: On the Crucial Role of Empathy in the Design of Communications: Genetic Testing as an Example (2014) (1)
44. Resizing Triathlons for Fairness (2005) (1)
Cholera, Rocket Ships and Tom's Veggies: Contemporary and Historical Ideas Towards the Effective Communication of School Performance (2000) (1)
Waiting for Achilles (2016) (1)
A small hurrah for the Black Death (2002) (1)
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist (2015) (1)
How Much More Efficiently Can Humans Run Than Swim (1993) (1)
On Examinee Choice in Educational Testing. GRE Board Professional Report No. 91-17P. (1994) (1)
Detecting DIF: Many Paths to Salvation (2010) (1)
2. Who Was Playfair (2013) (1)
Roderick P. McDonald (2007) (1)
Don't try this at home (2016) (1)
Visual Revelations: Todai Moto Kurashi (1994) (1)
Visual Revelations (2008) (1)
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. by McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2012) (1)
Adjusting NAEP for Self-Selection: A Useful Place for "Wall Chart" Technology?. (1990) (1)
The Isthmus of Acceptance: A Graphical Tool for Function-Based Item Analysis and Test Construction (1991) (1)
ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOME TEST RESCORING POLICIES (1996) (1)
SOME EMPIRICAL GUIDELINES FOR BUILDING TESTLETS1 (1991) (1)
Visual Revelations (2003) (1)
Integrating Figures and Text (1997) (1)
Visual Revelations (2005) (1)
6. Tom’s Veggies and the American Way (2013) (1)
Visual Answers to Scientific Questions (2019) (1)
ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF EXAMINEES WHO DID NOT REACH THE LAST ITEM OF A SECTION (1985) (1)
William Playfair and His Graphical Inventions: An Excerpt From the Introduction to the Republication of His Atlas and Statistical Breviary (2005) (1)
Visual Revelations (2001) (1)
Making Readable Overhead Displays (1997) (1)
Happiness and Causal Inference (2015) (1)
Visual Revelations: Sense-Lining (1992) (1)
Research news And Comments: Does Spending Money on Education Help? (1993) (1)
Minority advances in test performance: A response to Jones. (1986) (1)
TALCAM: A COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PERFORM A TUCKER ANALYSIS OF LEARNING CURVES AND MORE. (1968) (1)
Breast cancer screenings: Does the evidence support the recommendations? (2016) (1)
A Rose by Another Name (1997) (1)
SOME PITFALLS ENCOUNTERED WHILE TRYING TO COMPARE STATES ON THEIR SAT SCORES: PAGE AND FEIFS AS AN EXAMPLE* (1985) (1)
The Basic Sampling Model and Associated Topics (2012) (1)
Introduction to Profiles in Research (2003) (1)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: A Bayesian method for studying DIF: a cautionary tale filled with surprises and delights (2007) (1)
Visual Revelations (2010) (1)
Causal Inference and Death (2016) (1)
On the Academic Achievement of New Jersey ' s Public School Children : Fourth and Eighth Grade Mathematics in 1992 Howard Wainer Educational Testing Service (2012) (1)
Robust Estimation of Parole Outcome (1982) (1)
Making Essay Test Scores Fairer with Statistics. ETS Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 89-90. (1989) (1)
Visual Revelations: Causal Inference and Death (2015) (1)
Visual Revelations (2011) (1)
Double Y-Axis Graphs (1997) (1)
The Futility of Defining Honors. (2017) (1)
Visual Revelations (2008) (1)
How much is tenure worth (2011) (1)
Graphing Multiple Comparisons: Some Comments on Tukey (1993) (1)
Truth or Truthiness: Musing about Changes in the SAT: Is the College Board Getting Rid of the Bulldog? (2015) (0)
Some Supporting Evidence for Accurate Multivariate Perceptions with Chernoff Faces, Project 547. (1979) (0)
Visual Revelations: How the Rule of 72 Can Provide Guidance to Advance Your Wealth, Weight, Career, and Gas Mileage (2013) (0)
Visual Revelations (2005) (0)
Scoring Tests With Contaminated Response Vectors (2020) (0)
Visual Revelations (2009) (0)
14. Scaling the Market (2013) (0)
John Wilder Tukey: Statistical Inventor, Discoverer and Revolutionary (2003) (0)
Piano virtuosos and the four‐minute mile (2012) (0)
20. Graphical Tools for the Twenty-first Century: I. Spinning and Slicing (2013) (0)
In Memoriam: Leland Wilkinson (1944–2021) (2022) (0)
18. Clear Thinking Made Visible: Redesigning Score Reports for Students (2013) (0)
Visual Revelations: Life Follows Art: Gaming the Missing Data Algorithm (2014) (0)
4. The Aptitude-Achievement Connection Using an Aptitude Test to Aid in Allocating Educational Resources (2011) (0)
Tools From Probability and Statistics (2012) (0)
WAS THERE ONE DISTRACTOR TOO MANY (1983) (0)
15. Sex, Smoking, and Life Insurance: A Graphical View (2013) (0)
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA'S PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN: MATHEMATICS AND READING BETWEEN 1990 AND 1996 (1997) (0)
Visual Revelations (2009) (0)
USING TRILINEAR PLOTS FOR NAEP STATE DATA1 (1994) (0)
Visual Revelations: A Puzzle Solved? (1999) (0)
Visual Revelations (2010) (0)
William Playfair and the invention of statistical graphs (2004) (0)
...The Soul of Wit (1997) (0)
How Well Can We Equate Test Forms That Are Constructed by Examinees? Program Statistics Research. (1991) (0)
A SAMPLING OF STATISTICAL PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AT THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE1 (1992) (0)
Mis)reporting of Data (2012) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: TWO APPLICATIONS AND A TUTORIAL (2007) (0)
Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics by Lehmann, Erich L. (2012) (0)
Inside-out plots (2010) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: BAYESIAN TESTLET RESPONSE THEORY (2007) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: A Bayesian testlet model with covariates (2007) (0)
11. Order in the Court (2013) (0)
Visual Revelationsusing (2006) (0)
Visual Revelations: A Nobel Graph (1996) (0)
22. Epilogue: A Selection of Selection Anomalies (2013) (0)
Discussion of David Thissen’s Bad Questions (2016) (0)
Life Follows Art: Gaming the Missing Data Algorithm (2016) (0)
Visual Revelations (2001) (0)
Thinking Like a Data Scientist (2016) (0)
SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN PROBABILITY LEARNING1 (1967) (0)
Obtuário Frederic Mather Lord (1912-2000) (2000) (0)
Improving graphic displays by controlling creativity (2008) (0)
Graphs in the Presidential Campaign: Why Weren’t They Used More Broadly? (1997) (0)
(Mathematics); *Generalizabilit y Theory; *Reliability; *Scores; Tables (Data); *Test Items; Test (1997) (0)
Background: Experimental Design and the Collection of Data (2012) (0)
A Sampling of Statistical Problems Encountered at the Educational Testing Service. Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 92-26. (1992) (0)
An Editor’s Gratitude: Reviewer Acknowledgment (2004) (0)
Visual Revelations (2008) (0)
Using Trilinear Plots for NAEP State Data. Program Statistics Research. Technical Report. No. 94-6. (1994) (0)
Reminiscences of a Statistician: The Company I Kept by Lehmann, E. L. (2009) (0)
Improving Data Displays: Th e Media's and Ours (2016) (0)
Editor’s Foreword to: “Comparing Harm Done by Mobility and Class Absence: Missing Students and Missing Data,” by Michelle C. Dunn, Joseph B. Kadane, and John R. Garrow (2003) (0)
Some Thoughts on a World Without Tests (2021) (0)
Editorial (2007) (0)
16. There They Go Again (2013) (0)
He Knows the Words but not the Music. (1986) (0)
Statistical Graphics: A Guidepost for Scientific Discovery (2006) (0)
International Journal of Testing 2011 Reviewers (2012) (0)
Commentary: Adjusting NAEP for Self-Selection: A Useful Place for “Wall Chart” Technology? (1990) (0)
Notes and Comments: Some Methodological Notes on Gluskinos and Wainer (1971) (0)
Visual Revelations (2003) (0)
1. On the Value of Entrance Exams What Happens When the SAT Is Made Optional (2011) (0)
A Sampling of Statistical Problems (2012) (0)
Comment (2011) (0)
Three Welcome Arrivals for 2023: 1. Florence Nightingale (2023) (0)
Taking a CHANCE: An Interview with William F. Eddy and Stephen E. Fienberg (2007) (0)
21. Graphical Tools for the Twenty-first Century: II. Nearness and Smoothing Engines (2013) (0)
Some Concluding Remarks (2012) (0)
Conclusion: Don't Try Th is at Home (2016) (0)
Background: Data Presentation and Interpretation (2012) (0)
Giving the finger to dating services (2008) (0)
Visual Revelations (2011) (0)
On Style in College Textbooks (1972) (0)
Data Presentation and Interpretation (2012) (0)
Truth or Truthiness: Communicating Like a Data Scientist (2015) (0)
Truth or Truthiness: A Century and a Half of Moral Statistics: Plotting Evidence to Aff ect Social Policy (2015) (0)
Visual Revelations Howard Wainer , Column Editor Looking at Blood Sugar (2009) (0)
5. Comparing the Incomparable On the Importance of Big Assumptions and Scant Evidence (2011) (0)
Visual Revelations (2003) (0)
7. What If Choice Is Part of the Test (2011) (0)
The Promises and pitfalls of making national educational assesment adaptive: America's assessment as an example (2004) (0)
Objectives: To clarify the role of the Council and related timelines. To expand the knowledge base of Council members related to teacher evaluation, student growth, and associated psychometrics to inform future recommendations. (2010) (0)
Truth or Truthiness: Detecting Cheating Badly: If It Could Have Been, It Must Have Been (2015) (0)
Testing and Test Theory: Whither and Whence. (1982) (0)
Visual Revelations: Ancient Visualizations (2018) (0)
ON THE STUDY OF MATCHING CUT–SCORES TO TEST CHARACTERISTICS: AN OBSERVED SCORE APPROACH (1985) (0)
A Harmless Necessary CAT. (1992) (0)
Picturing an L.A. Bus Schedule (1997) (0)
Visual Revelations: Evidence in the 2016 Presidential Campaign (2016) (0)
Graphs ′R Us (2015) (0)
A Bayesian testlet model for a mixture of binary and polytomous data (2007) (0)
CHANCE Conversation (2006) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: The origins of testlet response theory – three alternatives (2007) (0)
Visual Revelations: The Birth of Statistical Graphics and Their European Childhood: On the historical development of W.E.B. Du Bois's graphical narrative of a people (2017) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: Epilogue (2007) (0)
Some Methodological Notes on Gluskinos and Wainer. (1971) (0)
Depicting Error. Program Statistics Research. Technical Report No. 95-2. (1995) (0)
Current uses of the computer in medicine. (1979) (0)
17. Sex and Sports: How Quickly Are Women Gaining? (2013) (0)
Statistical History from a Stigler for Detail. (1988) (0)
Picturing the Uncertain World (2021) (0)
THERE THEY GO AGAIN (1998) (0)
Book Reviews: Robust Regression & Outlier Detection (1988) (0)
Item Response Theory: Some Standard Errors (1983) (0)
Visual Revelations: Musing About Changes in the SAT: Is the College Board Getting Rid of the Bulldog? (2014) (0)
Galton's gleam Visual thinking and graphic discoveries (2020) (0)
Todai Moto Kurashi (1997) (0)
Taking a CHANCE: An Interview with William F. Eddy and Stephen E. Fienberg (2007) (0)
1. Why Playfair (2013) (0)
Transforming Medical Cucumbers into Sunbeams (2022) (0)
Looking at Reported Hate Crimes (2021) (0)
10. Two Mind-Bending Statistical Paradoxes (2013) (0)
8. Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the Graphic Discovery of Weather Patterns (2013) (0)
The grammar of graphics (2006) (0)
In Memoriam: Frederic Mather Lord (1912–2000) (2005) (0)
11. Of CAT s and Claims The First Step toward Wisdom (2011) (0)
Visual Revelations: A Statistician Reads the Obituaries: On the Relative Effects of Race and Crime on Employment (2019) (0)
Visual Revelations: VAMs and Baseball (2016) (0)
Probability Theory: Application Areas (2012) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: Fitting testlets with polytomous IRT models (2007) (0)
Some Empirical Guidelines for Building Testlets. Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 91-14. (1991) (0)
Visual Revelations (2010) (0)
Visual Revelations (2004) (0)
Why Testing? Why Should It Cost You? (2023) (0)
9. A Graphical Investigation of the Scourge of Vietnam (2013) (0)
PICTURING AN LA BUS SCHEDULE (1997) (0)
Visual Revelations: The Grabovsky Curve (2017) (0)
Visual Revelations: When Nothing Is Not Zero (2012) (0)
The 2-PL Bayesian testlet model (2007) (0)
Book Review (2015) (0)
Visual Revelations (2002) (0)
The first four millennia of mental testing: From ancient China to the computer age: (569752011-004) (1990) (0)
4 – Are We Correcting for Guessing in the Wrong Direction? (1983) (0)
9. Assessing Teachers from Student Scores On the Practicality of Value-Added Models (2011) (0)
Confidence Envelopes for Item Response Theory. Technical Report No. 83-38. (1983) (0)
7. The Graphical Inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: Two Precursors to William Playfair (2013) (0)
Reseña de "Computerized adapting testing: a primer" de Howard Wainer (1991) (0)
On the Crucial Role of Empathy in the Design of Communications: Genetic Testing as an Example (2016) (0)
Visual Revelations (2011) (0)
CHANCE Conversation (2005) (0)
8. A Little Ignorance Is a Dangerous Thing How Statistics Rescued a Damsel in Distress (2011) (0)
4. Scaling the Heights (and Widths) (2013) (0)
PART I Introduction to Testlets (2007) (0)
Visual Revelations: Defeating Deception: Escaping the Shackles of Truthiness by Learning to Think like a Data Scientist (2016) (0)
Visual Revelations (2009) (0)
Measuring the Effects of a Liberal Arts Education on the Perception of Poetry (1977) (0)
An excellent item. (1981) (0)
XTREE: A MULTIVARIATE GRAPHICAL ICON WITH SPECIAL APPLICABILITY IN MONTE CARLO STUDIES1 (1985) (0)
For Want of a Nail: Why Worthless Subscores May Be Seriously Impeding the Progress of Western Civilization (2016) (0)
Ethical Considerations in Data Collection (2012) (0)
Truth or Truthiness: When Nothing Is Not Zero: A True Saga of Missing Data, Adequate Yearly Progress, and a Memphis Charter School (2015) (0)
Using Experiments to Answer Four Vexing Questions (2016) (0)
Visual Revelations: Implicit Graphs (1994) (0)
Profiles in Research (2005) (0)
Statistical Sleuthing and Explanation (2012) (0)
Probability Theory: Background and Bayes’ Theorem (2012) (0)
Exploring COVID Data with Benford’s and Zipf’s Laws (2022) (0)
DISCUSSION ARTICLE Comment (2011) (0)
conventional item-based reliability estimation methods (S. (1999) (0)
Visual Revelations (2010) (0)
How the Rule of 72 Can Provide Guidance to Advance Your Wealth, Your Career, and Your Gas Mileage (2016) (0)
19. John Wilder Tukey: The Father of Twenty-first-Century Graphical Display (2013) (0)
5. A Priestley View of International Currency Exchanges (2013) (0)
A little ignorance: How statistics rescued a damsel in distress (2009) (0)
DIFferential Testlet Functioning Definitions and Detection. Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 91-9. (1991) (0)
Visual Revelations: Picturing an L.A. Bus Schedule (1995) (0)
Experimental Design and the Collection of Data (2012) (0)
The Graphical Birth of Plate Tectonics (2020) (0)
MOSTELLER, F. (2010) The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller. (2011) (0)
MULTIVARIATE DISPLAY FROM QUIPUS TO FACES (1982) (0)
CHANCEConversation: Former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau Gets Personal (2005) (0)
Obituary Frederic Mather Lord (1912–2000) (2000) (0)
Assessing long‐term risk with short‐term data (2011) (0)
Visual Revelations: Plotting Evidence to Affect Social Policy: Guns, Murders, Life, Death, and Ignorance in Contemporary America (2013) (0)
A brief history and the basic ideas of modern testlet response theory (2007) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications: Using posterior distributions to evaluate passing scores: the PPoP curve (2007) (0)
A Catch-22 in Assigning Primary Delegates (2021) (0)
Visual Revelations (2005) (0)
A Testlet-Based Examination of the LSAT. Statistical Report. LSAC Research Report Series. (1994) (0)
A small hurrah for the Black Death: Chance (2002) (0)
Visual Revelations (2007) (0)
Book Review (2014) (0)
13. Like a Trout in the Milk (2013) (0)
12. No Order in the Court (2013) (0)
Truth or Truthiness: Causal Inferences from Observational Studies: Fracking, Injection Wells, Earthquakes, and Oklahoma (2015) (0)
3. On Rigid Decision Rules for Scholarships (2011) (0)
2. On Substituting Achievement Tests for Aptitude Tests in College Admissions (2011) (0)
College entrance exams: A modern “shibboleth”? (2022) (0)
Reflections on a Too Extreme Idea (2013) (0)
Choosing: A Test. ETS Program Statistics Research. (1992) (0)
Applying the Tools of Data Science to Education (2016) (0)
How Unidimensional Are Tests Comprising Both Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Items? An Analysis of Two Tests. Program Statistics Research Technical Report No. 93-32. (1993) (0)
Measurement Problems. Program Statistics Research. Technical Report No. 92-20. (1992) (0)

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