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Lawrence J. Hubert

Also known as Lawrence Hubert, Larry Hubert

Lawrence Hubert is a psychologist and statistician whose work on cluster analysis includes the 1985 paper "Comparing partitions," written with Phipps Arabie, which describes the adjusted Rand index for comparing two clusterings. He earned a Stanford doctorate in 1971, published on hierarchical clustering in 1972 and 1976, and served as president of the Psychometric Society from 1983 to 1984 while at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With Arabie and other coauthors, he co-edited Clustering and Classification in 1996 and co-authored Combinatorial Data Analysis in 2001, and in 2008 he coauthored a paper on K-means clustering. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him a foreign member in 2007, and the Psychometric Society gave him its Career Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2015. He is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is Lanier Professor of Psychology.

Born
1944
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Timeline

  1. 1971–1976

    Stanford PhD and clustering papers

    He earns a doctorate at Stanford University in 1971, working under Patrick Suppes and Lee Cronbach. In 1972, he publishes "Some extensions of Johnson's hierarchical clustering algorithms" in Psychometrika, and in 1976, he and F. B. Baker publish a graph-theoretic approach to goodness-of-fit in complete-link hierarchical clustering in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

  2. 1983–1984

    President of the Psychometric Society

    He serves as president of the Psychometric Society from 1983 to 1984, while at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His presidential address is titled "Statistical Applications of Linear Assignment."

  3. 1985

    Comparing partitions

    He and Phipps Arabie publish "Comparing partitions" in the Journal of Classification in 1985. The paper describes the adjusted Rand index, a version of the Rand index corrected for chance that is commonly used to compare a clustering algorithm's output with a reference clustering.

  4. 1996–2001

    Two books on clustering

    In 1996, he co-edits Clustering and Classification with Phipps Arabie and G. De Soete, published by World Scientific. In 2001, he co-authors Combinatorial Data Analysis: Optimization by Dynamic Programming with Arabie and J. Meulman, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

  5. 2007

    Royal Netherlands Academy election

    The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences elects him a foreign member in 2007.

  6. 2008

    Order-constrained K-means clustering

    He and D. Steinley publish "Order-constrained solutions in K-means clustering" in Psychometrika in 2008.

  7. 2015

    Psychometric Society career award

    The Psychometric Society gives him its Career Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2015.

  8. As of October 2026

    Emeritus professor at Illinois

    He is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is Lanier Professor of Psychology and professor of statistics and educational psychology.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignProfessor Emeritus; Lanier Professor of Psychology; Professor of Statistics and Educational Psychology
  2. 1983–1984University of California, Santa Barbara

Education

  1. 1971Stanford UniversityPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.

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  1. Lawrence Hubert - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Larry Hubert (Twenty Interviews With Psychometric Society Presidents) - IDEAS/RePEc ideas.repec.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Reprints - Lawrence Hubert prod2020.psychology.illinois.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Past, Present, and Incoming Presidents - Psychometric Society psychometricsociety.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Rand index - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Comparing partitions (Journal of Classification) - IDEAS/RePEc ideas.repec.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Career Award - Psychometric Society psychometricsociety.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Full Directory | Department of Psychology | Illinois psychology.illinois.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.