Leah Feuerstahler

Dr. Leah Feuerstahler portrait

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology Program
Curriculum Vitae

Email: [email protected]

Rose Hill Campus: Dealy Hall, Room 226G
Phone: 718-817-3788

    • 2011 BS in Psychology
    • 2015 MS in Statistics
    • 2016 PhD in Quantitative/Psychometric Methods
    • Item Response Theory
    • Psychometric Model Specification, Fit, and Interpretation
    • Nonparametric Methods
    • Bayesian Statistics

  • Undergraduate

    • PSYC 2000 Statistics

    Graduate

    • PSYC 5100 Psychometric Theory
    • PSYC 6802 Introduction to Psychological Statistics
    • PSYC 7920 Item Response Theory
    • PSYC 7940 Bayesian Statistics

  • Feuerstahler, L. M., Verkuilen, J., Setti, F., & Johnson, P. (in press). Defining asymmetry in item response theory. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.

    Setti, F., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (in press). Bayesian model averaging of (a) symmetric item response models in small samples. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. 

    Liu, S. H., Manz, K. E., Buckley, J. P., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2025). Exposome burden scores to summarize exposure to environmental mixtures: Implications for cross-study harmonization and fairness in precision environmental health. Current Environmental Health Reports, 12. 13. 

    Feuerstahler, L. M., Ahn, J. R., Chen, X., Lorenzi, D., & Plourde, J. (2024). On the monotonicity of the residual heteroscedasticity item response model. Behaviormetrika, 51, 99-123.

    Liu, S., Chen, Y., Kuiper, J., Ho, E., Buckley, J., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2024). Applying latent variable models to estimate exposure burden to chemical mixtures and identify exposure subgroups: A critical review and future directions. Statistics in Biosciences, 16, 482-502.

     

  • Aytürk, E., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2026, July). Impact of parameter type and multidimensional structure on the holistic fitting propensity of dichotomous IRT models. Seoul: South Korea: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.

    Feuerstahler, L. M., Chen, Y., & Liu, S. H. (2026, June). Harmonizing PFAS burden scores across two decades: Establishing measurement invariance from 1999-2020. New York, NY: Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference.

    Chen, X., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2026, June). Comparing IRT models with normalized maximum likelihood. New York, NY: Modern Modeling Methods (M3) Conference.

    Nyamulani, O., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2026, April). Parameter recovery for Bayesian testlet models in small sample sizes. Los Angeles, CA: National Council on Measurement in Education.

    Ardesia, M., Callahan, P., Rosenfeld, B., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2026, March). Gender differences in item functioning on the HCR-20V3: An item response theory approach. Reno, NV: American Psychology Law Society Conference.

    Setti, F., Feuerstahler, L. M., Zhu, S. M., Petrov, N., Karger, E., & Himmelstein, M. (2025, September). Measuring forecasting proficiency: An item response theory approach. Lucca, Italy: Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making.

    Feuerstahler, L. M., Verkuilen, J., Setti, F., & Johnson, P. (2025, July). Defining asymmetric item response theory. Minneapolis, MN: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.

    Setti., F., Feuerstahler, L. M., Zhu, S. M., Petrov, N., Karger, E., & Himmelstein, M. (2025, July). Measuring forecasting proficiency: An item response theory approach. Minneapolis, MN: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.

    Liu, S., Manz, K., Buckley, J., & Feuerstahler, L. M. (2025, July). Exposome burden scores to summarize environmental chemical mixtures: Creating a common scale for cross-study harmonization, report-back, and precision environmental health. Minneapolis, MN: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.

    • Psychometric Society
    • National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)