Judith T. Lessler
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
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, )
- Sudman, Seymour (August 1993), Journal of Marketing Research, 30 (3): 392–393, )
- Ziegel, Eric R. (November 1993), Technometrics, 35 (4): 464, )
- Kott, Philip S. (December 1993), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88 (424): 1470–1471, )
- Szuster, Fearnley (1994), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), 43 (2): 336, )
- Wright, Tommy (1994), Mathematical Reviews, )
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-11-18