Judith T. Lessler
American statistician
Judith T. Lessler is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology , particularly on surveys relating to health and epidemiology .[ 1]
Lessler was born in Charlotte, North Carolina , and grew up on a farm in Iredell County, North Carolina .[ 2] She earned her Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . Her dissertation, A Double Sampling Scheme Model for Eliminating Measurement Process Bias and Estimating Measurement Errors in Surveys , was jointly supervised by Daniel G. Horvitz and Gary Grove Koch .[ 3]
She worked as a statistician for RTI International , the Battelle Memorial Institute , and National Center for Health Statistics , before retiring to operate a consulting business and run an organic farm on the Alston-DeGraffenried Plantation historic site in Chatham County, North Carolina .[ 1] [ 4]
With William D. Kalsbeek, Lessler is the author of Nonsampling Error in Surveys (Wiley, 1992).[ 5]
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1992.[ 6] She is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .[ 1]
References
^ a b c de Leeuw, Edith D.; Hox, Joop J.; Dillman, Don A. (eds.), "Lessler, Judy" (PDF) , International Handbook of Survey Methodology , Psychology Press
^ Lessler, Judith T. (February 1, 2018), "Doors and Windows" , The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
^ Judith T. Lessler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Harland's Creek Farm , Durham Farmer's Market, 10 April 2018, retrieved 2018-11-18
^ Reviews of Nonsampling Error in Surveys :
Bradburn, Norman M. (July 1993), Contemporary Sociology , 22 (4): 623, doi :10.2307/2074471 , JSTOR 2074471 {{citation }}
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Sudman, Seymour (August 1993), Journal of Marketing Research , 30 (3): 392– 393, doi :10.2307/3172891 , JSTOR 3172891 {{citation }}
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Ziegel, Eric R. (November 1993), Technometrics , 35 (4): 464, doi :10.2307/1270300 , JSTOR 1270300 {{citation }}
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Kott, Philip S. (December 1993), Journal of the American Statistical Association , 88 (424): 1470– 1471, doi :10.2307/2291300 , JSTOR 2291300 {{citation }}
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Szuster, Fearnley (1994), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) , 43 (2): 336, doi :10.2307/2348357 , JSTOR 2348357 {{citation }}
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Wright, Tommy (1994), Mathematical Reviews , MR 1193229 {{citation }}
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^ ASA Fellows list , American Statistical Association , archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-11-18
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