Virginia Lesser

Short description: American biostatistician and environmental statistician

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, https://stat.oregonstate.edu/content/lesser-virginia-ginny, retrieved 2018-10-28
2. ↑ Virginia Lesser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ↑ Survey Research Center Staff, Oregon State University, https://stat.oregonstate.edu/src/survey-research-center-staff, retrieved 2018-10-28
4. ↑ History of Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, https://stat.oregonstate.edu/content/history-department-statistics, retrieved 2018-10-28
5. ↑ "Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony", AMSTATNews, October 1, 2010, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2010/10/01/jsmhighlightsoct10/
6. ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual, retrieved 2018-10-28

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