Optimal Analysis of Qualitative Data with Illustrations

About Shizuhiko Nishisato

Shizuhiko Nishisato graduated from Hokkaido University (BA MA) in Japan and obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina USA. His first position was at McGill University Montreal Canada in 1966. After that he moved to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education the University of Toronto Canada to teach where he also served as Chair of the Department of Measurement and Evaluation from 1971-1976. In 2000 he retired as Professor Emeritus. He served as the Editor of Psychometrika (1991-95) President of the Psychometric Society and a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Japanese Classification Society. His numerous awards include that of the Distinguished Alumnus from the Psychology Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina. His specialty is quantification theory in particular dual scaling. He published 9 books before his retirement and 9 books after retirement. In 2023 he published a Festschrift entitled Analysis of Categorical Data from Historical Perspectives: Essays in Honour of Shizuhiko Nishisato (edited by Beh Lombardo and Clavel).