Sharon Lynn Lohr is an American statistician. She is an Emeritus Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Statistics at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

, and an independent statistical consultant. Her research interests include

survey sampling In statistics, survey sampling describes the process of selecting a sample of elements from a target population to conduct a survey. The term "survey" may refer to many different types or techniques of observation. In survey sampling it most often ...

design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, or experimental design) is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. The term is generally associ ...

, and applications of statistics in education and criminology.

Education and career

Lohr graduated from

Calvin College Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed (Calvinist) ...

in 1982. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1987 at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

. Her dissertation, ''Accurate Multivariate Estimation Using Double and Triple Sampling'', was supervised by Mark Finster. After retiring from Arizona State, she served a five-year term as vice president and senior statistician at Westat.

Books

Lohr is the author of: *''Sampling: Design and Analysis'' (Duxbury Press, 1999; 2nd ed., Cengage/CRC Press, 2010) *''Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics'' (CRC Press, 2019)

Recognition

Lohr is a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

and an elected member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

. In 2003 she became the inaugural winner of the Gertrude M. Cox Award of the Washington Statistical Society.

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