COMputational PSychometrics Group

The COMputational PSychometrics (COMPS) Group, based at the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, advances statistical and computational methods for analyzing measurement in the social sciences. We develop new psychometric models, efficient estimation algorithms, and open-source software such as ShinyItemAnalysis (SIA), difNLR, and others. Our work combines statistical theory, simulation studies, and real data applications, and we collaborate with researchers to bring novel methods into practice.

We have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Computer Science!

Our new paper was published in Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics! See more publications

Denny Borsboom presented at COMPS seminar

We organize a half day short course for the IMPS 2025 conference on
the development of interactive shiny modules

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

We organize a full day workshop for EAM 2025 conference on
the modelling responses in multi-item measurements
with R and shiny

Register here!

This is is us!

Photo from Karlštejn trip

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News

• Professor Adrian Raftery visits COMPS Group at ICS CAS.
• Giuseppe Mignemi joined our team from Bocconi University, welcome Giuseppe!
• Jun Wu received an MSCA-CZ grant (2025-27), congratulations!
• Jan Netík received a GAUK grant (2025-27) from Charles University, congratulations!
• Michaela Cichrová and Michaela Vařejková received a GAUK grant (2024-26) from Charles University, congratulations!
• The COMPS group collaborates on a new OP JAK project DigiWELL, co-financed by the European Union for the period 2024—2028.
• The EduCoDe project funded by the Czech Science Foundation for period 2025—2027!
• The ComPs project (2023—2025) was rated as Excellent by the Czech Science Foundation!
• The COMPS group served as the local organizer for IMPS 2024.
• The book Computational Aspects of Psychometric Methods. With R was published at CRC Press
• Check our new manuscripts.