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Psychometrics is a science that tries to measure educational and psychological levels of people and groups of people. Areas that are studied in people include intelligence, skills, and personality traits. The science is mainly a part of the science of psychology.

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v t e Psychology
Psychologist History Philosophy
Basic psychology	Abnormal Affective neuroscience Affective science Behavioral genetics Behavioral neuroscience Behaviorism Cognitive/Cognitivism Cognitive neuroscience Social Comparative Cross-cultural Cultural Developmental Differential Ecological Evolutionary Experimental Gestalt Intelligence Mathematical Moral Neuropsychology Perception Personality Positive Psycholinguistics Psychophysiology Quantitative Social Theoretical
Applied psychology	Anomalistic Applied behavior analysis Assessment Clinical Coaching Community Consumer Counseling Critical Educational Ergonomics Feminist Forensic Health Industrial and organizational Legal Media Medical Military Music Occupational health Pastoral Political Psychometrics Psychotherapy Religion School Sport and exercise Suicidology Systems Traffic
Methodologies	Animal testing Archival research Behavior epigenetics Case study Content analysis Experiments Human subject research Interviews Neuroimaging Observation Psychophysics Qualitative research Quantitative research Self-report inventory Statistical surveys
Psychologists	Wilhelm Wundt(d. 1920) William James(d. 1910) Ivan Pavlov(d. 1936) Sigmund Freud(d. 1939) Edward Thorndike(d. 1949) Carl Jung(d. 1961) John B. Watson(d. 1958) Clark L. Hull(d. 1952) Kurt Lewin(d. 1947) Jean Piaget(d. 1980) Gordon Allport(d. 1967) J. P. Guilford(d. 1987) Carl Rogers(d. 1987) Erik Erikson(d. 1994) B. F. Skinner(d. 1990) Donald O. Hebb(d. 1985) Ernest Hilgard(d. 2001) Harry Harlow(d. 1981) Raymond Cattell(d. 1998) Abraham Maslow(d. 1970) Neal E. Miller(d. 2002) Jerome Bruner(d. 2016) Donald T. Campbell(d. 1996) Hans Eysenck(d. 1997) Herbert A. Simon(d. 2001) David McClelland(d. 1998) Leon Festinger(d. 1989) George A. Miller(d. 2012) Richard Lazarus(d. 2002) Stanley Schachter(d. 1997) Robert Zajonc(d. 2008) Albert Bandura(d. 2021) Roger Brown(1925–1997) Endel Tulving(b.1927) Lawrence Kohlberg(d. 1987) Noam Chomsky(b.1928) Ulric Neisser(d. 2012) Jerome Kagan(d. 2021) Walter Mischel(d. 2018) Elliot Aronson(b.1932) Daniel Kahneman(b.1934) Paul Ekman(b.1934) Michael Posner(b.1936) Amos Tversky(d. 1996) Bruce McEwen(d. 2020) Larry Squire(b.1941) Richard E. Nisbett(b.1941) Martin Seligman(b.1942) Ed Diener(d. 2021) Shelley E. Taylor(b.1946) John Anderson(b.1947) Ronald C. Kessler(b.1947) Joseph E. LeDoux(b.1949) Richard Davidson(b.1951) Susan Fiske(b.1952) Roy Baumeister(b.1953)
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Statistics

Descriptive statistics

Continuous data

Center	Mean arithmetic geometric harmonic cubic generalized/power Median Mode
Dispersion	Variance Standard deviation Average absolute deviation Coefficient of variation Percentile Range Interquartile range
Shape	Central limit theorem Moments Skewness Kurtosis L-moments

Count data

Index of dispersion

Summary tables

Dependence

Graphics

Data collection

Study design	Population Statistic Effect size Statistical power Optimal design Sample size determination Replication Missing data
Survey methodology	Sampling stratified cluster Standard error Opinion poll Questionnaire
Controlled experiments	Scientific control Randomized experiment Randomized controlled trial Random assignment Blocking Interaction Factorial experiment
Adaptive Designs	Adaptive clinical trial Up-and-Down Designs Stochastic approximation
Observational Studies	Cross-sectional study Cohort study Natural experiment Quasi-experiment

Statistical inference

Statistical theory

Frequentist inference

Point estimation	Estimating equations Maximum likelihood Method of moments M-estimator Minimum distance Unbiased estimators Mean-unbiased minimum-variance Rao–Blackwellization Lehmann–Scheffé theorem Median unbiased Plug-in
Interval estimation	Confidence interval Pivot Likelihood interval Prediction interval Tolerance interval Resampling Bootstrap Jackknife
Testing hypotheses	1- & 2-tails Power Uniformly most powerful test Permutation test Randomization test Multiple comparisons
Parametric tests	Likelihood-ratio Score/Lagrange multiplier Wald

Specific tests

Z-test (normal) Student's t-test F-test
Goodness of fit	Chi-squared G-test Kolmogorov–Smirnov Anderson–Darling Lilliefors Jarque–Bera Normality (Shapiro–Wilk) Likelihood-ratio test Model selection Cross validation AIC BIC
Rank statistics	Sign Sample median Signed rank (Wilcoxon) Hodges–Lehmann estimator Rank sum (Mann–Whitney) Nonparametric anova 1-way (Kruskal–Wallis) 2-way (Friedman) Ordered alternative (Jonckheere–Terpstra)

Bayesian inference

Correlation	Pearson product-moment Partial correlation Confounding variable Coefficient of determination
Regression analysis	Errors and residuals Regression validation Mixed effects models Simultaneous equations models Multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS)
Linear regression	Simple linear regression Ordinary least squares General linear model Bayesian regression
Non-standard predictors	Nonlinear regression Nonparametric Semiparametric Isotonic Robust Heteroscedasticity Homoscedasticity
Generalized linear model	Exponential families Logistic (Bernoulli)/Binomial/Poisson regressions
Partition of variance	Analysis of variance (ANOVA, anova) Analysis of covariance Multivariate ANOVA Degrees of freedom

Categorical/Multivariate/Time-series/Survival analysis

Categorical

Multivariate

Time-series

General	Decomposition Trend Stationarity Seasonal adjustment Exponential smoothing Cointegration Structural break Granger causality
Specific tests	Dickey–Fuller Johansen Q-statistic (Ljung–Box) Durbin–Watson Breusch–Godfrey
Time domain	Autocorrelation (ACF) partial (PACF) Cross-correlation (XCF) ARMA model ARIMA model (Box–Jenkins) Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) Vector autoregression (VAR)
Frequency domain	Spectral density estimation Fourier analysis Wavelet Whittle likelihood

Survival

Survival function	Kaplan–Meier estimator (product limit) Proportional hazards models Accelerated failure time (AFT) model First hitting time
Hazard function	Nelson–Aalen estimator
Test	Log-rank test

Applications

Biostatistics	Bioinformatics Clinical trials/studies Epidemiology Medical statistics
Engineering statistics	Chemometrics Methods engineering Probabilistic design Process/quality control Reliability System identification
Social statistics	Actuarial science Census Crime statistics Demography Econometrics Jurimetrics National accounts Official statistics Population statistics Psychometrics
Spatial statistics	Cartography Environmental statistics Geographic information system Geostatistics Kriging

v t e Human intelligence topics
Types	Collective Emotional Intellectual Linguistic Multiple Social Spatial(visuospatial)
Abilities, traits, and constructs	Cognition Cognitive liberty Communication Creativity Fluid and crystallized intelligence g factor Intellect Intelligence quotient Knowledge Learning Memory Problem solving Reasoning Skill Thought(abstraction) Understanding Visual processing
Models and theories	Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory Fluid and crystallized intelligence Multiple-intelligences theory PASS theory Three-stratum theory Triarchic theory
Areas of research	Evolution of human intelligence Heritability of IQ Psychometrics Intelligence and environment/fertility/height/health/longevity/neuroscience/personality/race/sex
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