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