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D-Index
66
Citations
20573
World Ranking
960
National Ranking
449

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - E. F. Lindquist Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Howard Wainer is affiliated with the National Board of Medical Examiners in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including History and Philosophy of Science, Statistics and Probability, Safety Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work touches on a variety of topics such as Youth Development and Social Support, History of Science and Natural History, Medical Education and Admissions, Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, Educational and Psychological Assessments, Historical and Literary Studies, and Historical Philosophy and Science.

Howard Wainer has contributed to several recent papers, publishing in recognized venues. These include:

  • "How Can We Estimate the Death Toll from COVID-19?" (2020, CHANCE)
  • "It's Just an Observation" (2023, Educational Psychology Review)
  • "Galton's Gleam Visual Thinking and Graphic Discoveries" (2020, Significance)
  • "The Graphical Birth of Plate Tectonics" (2020, CHANCE)
  • "Looking at Reported Hate Crimes" (2021, CHANCE)

Frequent coauthors of Howard Wainer feature several collaborators:

  • Michael Friendly (21 coauthored works)
  • Daniel H. Robinson (6 coauthored works)
  • Shelby J. Haberman (2 coauthored works)
  • Richard A. Feinberg (2 coauthored works)
  • Paul F. Velleman (2 coauthored works)

The preferred publication venues for Howard Wainer include:

  • CHANCE (12 publications)
  • Significance (3 publications)
  • Educational Psychology Review (1 publication)
  • Harvard University Press eBooks (1 publication)

Howard Wainer has published several books through notable academic presses. Harvard University Press published two books titled A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication in 2021. Cambridge University Press released Subscores in 2024 and Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness in 2025. Princeton University Press also published Picturing the Uncertain World in 2021.

Over the course of their career, this researcher has received several recognitions including the E. F. Lindquist Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2015, along with fellowship honors from the American Educational Research Association in 2008 and the American Statistical Association in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer

    Howard Wainer;Neil J. Dorans;Ronald Flaugher;Bert F. Green

  • Differential Item Functioning.

    Andrew C. Gudgeon;P. W. Holland;H. Wainer

  • Estimating Coefficients in Linear Models: It Don't Make No Nevermind

    Howard Wainer

  • Item Clusters and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Case for Testlets

    Howard Wainer;Gerard L. Kiely

  • Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models.

    David Thissen;Lynne Steinberg;Howard Wainer

  • Use of item response theory in the study of group differences in trace lines.

    David Thissen;Lynne Steinberg;Howard Wainer

  • A Bayesian random effects model for testlets

    Eric T. Bradlow;Howard Wainer;Xiaohui Wang

  • Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications

    Howard Wainer;Eric T. Bradlow;Xiaohui Wang

  • On the Reliability of Testlet‐Based Tests

    Stephen G. Sireci;David Thissen;Howard Wainer

  • The Rasch model as additive conjoint measurement

    Richard Perline;Benjamin D. Wright;Howard Wainer

  • COMBINING MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEST SCORES: TOWARD A MARXIST THEORY OF TEST CONSTRUCTION

    Howard Wainer;David Thissen

  • How to Display Data Badly

    Howard Wainer

  • How Is Reliability Related to the Quality of Test Scores? What Is the Effect of Local Dependence on Reliability?

    Howard Wainer;David Thissen

  • Graphical data analysis.

    Howard Wainer;David Thissen

  • Item Response Theory, Item Calibration, and Proficiency Estimation

    Howard Wainer;Neil J. Dorans;Ronald Flaugher;Bert F. Green

  • Differential Item Functioning

    Paul W. Holland;Howard Wainer

  • A General Bayesian Model for Testlets: Theory and Applications:

    Xiaohui Wang;Eric T. Bradlow;Howard Wainer

  • Testlet Response Theory: An Analog for the 3PL Model Useful in Testlet-Based Adaptive Testing

    Howard Wainer;Eric T. Bradlow;Zuru Du

  • On the sensitivity of regression and regressors.

    Howard Wainer

  • Some standard errors in item response theory

    David Thissen;Howard Wainer

Frequent Co-Authors

David Thissen
David Thissen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric T. Bradlow
Eric T. Bradlow University of Pennsylvania
Robert J. Mislevy
Robert J. Mislevy University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen G. Sireci
Stephen G. Sireci University of Massachusetts Amherst
Benjamin D. Wright
Benjamin D. Wright University of Chicago
Gerard Kiely
Gerard Kiely University College Cork
Ronald K. Hambleton
Ronald K. Hambleton University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anne C. Petersen
Anne C. Petersen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Laura A. Baker
Laura A. Baker University of Southern California
Leona S. Aiken
Leona S. Aiken Arizona State University

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