About 

Emily is a 4th year doctoral student in the Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology program at Fordham University. Her current work includes decision making under uncertainty in a public policy context and the derivation of distance measures between nonparametric distributions with various properties. Her secondary research interest is in psychometric analysis. Completed and in progress projects include: psychometric evaluation of a clinical trauma questionnaire (Rasmussen, Verkuilen, Ho, and Fan, 2015), robust estimation of reliability in small samples, and examination of vertical scale drift on repetitious horizontal equating.

Emily graduated with a B.A. in Psychology (minors in Business & Creative Writing, cum laude) from New York University (2012) as a Trustees Scholar, and is a Psychometrics Intern at the College Board for the academic years 2014-2016.

Her co-authors incude: David Budescu, Jay Verkuilen, Michael Chajewski, Mandeep Dhami, Andy Rasmussen.