A forward from another list that I thought might be of interest here.
(The full NY Times article is free but requires registration.)
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A detailed obituary, with a photo in the print edition, appeared in the
New York Times Saturday on Leslie Kish, the Michigan professor who
developed probability sampling methods now used in surveys. He passed
away October 7 in Ann Arbor.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/national/14KISH.html
Leslie Kish, 90; Improved Science Surveys
By ERIC PACE
Excerpt:
In the 1930's most pollsters used quota sampling, in which interviewers
are asked to find and question certain numbers of people who match various
profiles. But a small group of American statisticians was beginning to use
probability sampling, in which interviewees are chosen by a random process
outside the interviewer's control. By the 1940's there was debate on which
method should become the standard.
Professor Kish was instrumental in getting probability sampling
recognized, at Michigan and elsewhere, as the type of sampling to be used
in surveys involving human behavior.
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Professor Kish was also an early advocate of rolling samples. That is, the
repeated use of separate sample surveys a different sample each time at
regular intervals, that cumulate into very large studies. That technique
is is just beginning to be used in the United States.
In addition, Professor Kish wrote "Survey Sampling" (1965,
Wiley), which is still in print and widely used.
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The obituary also notes that he co-founded the Institute for Social
Research at Michigan in 1947. And that he fought against Franco in the
Spanish Civil War.
dan
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