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]

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  1. ^ a b c de Leeuw, Edith D.; Hox, Joop J.; Dillman, Don A. (eds.), "Lessler, Judy" (PDF), International Handbook of Survey Methodology, Psychology Press
  2. ^ Lessler, Judith T. (February 1, 2018), "Doors and Windows", The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
  3. ^ Judith T. Lessler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Harland's Creek Farm, Durham Farmer's Market, 10 April 2018, retrieved 2018-11-18
  5. ^ Reviews of Nonsampling Error in Surveys:
  6. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-11-18