Goldine Gleser

Goldine C. Gleser, who lived from 1915 to 2004, was an American psychologist and statistician known for her research on the statistics of psychological testing, on generalizability theory, on defence mechanisms, and on the psychological effects on child survivors of the Buffalo Creek flood. Generalizability theory, a statistical framework for designing reliable observations, was originally introduced by Lee Cronbach, N. Rajaratnam and Gleser in 1963. She was a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Cincinnati.