Lars Lyberg
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Lars Lyberg (1 December 1944 – 9 March 2021)[1] was a Swedish statistician, head of research and development at Statistics Sweden, the founding editor of the Journal of Official Statistics, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association. His research focused on data quality, total survey error, and research in the multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts.
Lyberg received his PhD in statistics from the Stockholm University where he also taught in 2003–2009 and 2010–2015.[2][3]
He began his career at Statistics Sweden in 1966 and later directed its research and development department until his retirement in 2010. During his tenure, he represented Sweden in the development of ISO Standard 20252 on Market, Opinion and Social Research.[1]
In 1985, he founded the Journal of Official Statistics and served as editor-in-chief for 25 years.[4]
He published numerous articles, books, conference volumes, and task force reports, most notably: Total Survey Error: Past, Present, and Future,[5] Telephone Survey Methodology,[6] Measurement Errors in Surveys,[7] Survey Measurement and Process Quality,[8] Introduction to Survey Quality,[9] Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts,[10] Survey Error in Practice,[11] AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force Report on Comparative Surveys,[12][13] and Big Data Meets Survey Science,[14] and posthumously the Handbook of Computational Social Science[15] and Improving the Measurement of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe: Reducing non-sampling errors.[16]