Sharon Lohr

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Sharon Lynn Lohr is an American statistician. She is an Emeritus Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University, and an independent statistical consultant.[1] Her research interests include survey sampling, design of experiments, and applications of statistics in education and criminology.[2]

Lohr graduated from Calvin College in 1982. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1987 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] Her dissertation, Accurate Multivariate Estimation Using Double and Triple Sampling, was supervised by Mark Finster.[3]

After retiring from Arizona State, she served a five-year term as vice president and senior statistician at Westat.[1]

Books

Lohr is the author of:

  • Sampling: Design and Analysis (Duxbury Press, 1999; 2nd ed., Cengage/CRC Press, 2010)[4]
  • Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics (CRC Press, 2019)[5]

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