Virginia Lesser

Virginia Marie Lesser is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician known for her research on non-sampling error, survey methodology, and agricultural applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics and chair of the statistics department at Oregon State University.^[1]

Education and career

Lesser completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling, was supervised by William D. Kalsbeek.^[2]

At Oregon State, she has been Director of the Survey Research Center since 1993.^[3] She became the first woman promoted to full professor in statistics at Oregon State, in 2009.^[4]

Recognition

Lesser became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.^[5] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[6]

References

1. Lesser, Virginia (Ginny), Oregon State University, retrieved 2018-10-28
2. Virginia Lesser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Survey Research Center Staff, Oregon State University, retrieved 2018-10-28
4. History of Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, retrieved 2018-10-28
5. "Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTATNews, October 1, 2010
6. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2018-10-28