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Morris Howard Hansen
Morris Howard Hansen
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the clevelopment of sampling theory necessary for the efficient conduct of large-scare national surveys, the establishment of formal quality control methods for surveys, en c! the derivation of theory en c!
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in the nearby town of WorIancI, Wyoming, where Morris was raised. Although Morris left Wyoming soon after graduating college, he retainer!
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most of all, from himself. Much of what we now know about sample survey theory en c!
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unemployment, which uncler the Census Bureau became known as the Current Population Survey. In 1941 Morris became the assistant chief of the Statistical Research Division at the Census Bureau.
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The work pointed out the advantages of very large primary sampling units in a multistage sample when costs and adminis
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his colleagues to sample surveys represent an equivalent contribution from statistics to social science en c! more generally to all forms of observational study." Even the relatively acivancec!
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a subsequent book, Labour Force Statistics: Sample Survey Methods, was publisher! by the Organization for European Economic Cooperation.
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This meant the incorporation of nonsampling error into the consideration of choices among alternative survey designs. In other words, this implied recognition that when the errors resulting from simple response en c!
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The theory is widely known as the Census Bureau model of survey error. On the basis of that model, the Bureau of the Census has implemented the estimation of the error contributions of enumerators in the population census and current population survey, as well as from collars of occupational categories, en c!
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The next major electronic advance that the Hansen team undertook was the clevelopment of mark-reacling electronic equipment that conic! replace manual care!
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the design of intercensal sample surveys have been acloptec! by national statistical agencies woric~wicle.
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distributions for business establishments, that is, "you can't do probability sampling, it applies to other areas but it doesn't apply here." With Benjamin J Topping, a frequent colIaborator, Morris proposed procedures for selecting samples of establishments en c!
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estimation on the role of moclels in making inferences from survey ciata.7 He wrote a number of papers relating to historical developments in sampling theory and, more generally, to survey methods. He also continues!
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Honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society Honorary member of the International Statistical Institute
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they hac! four chilciren: Evelyn Maxine, Morris Howard, James Hans, en c!
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funcis to the Washington Statistical Society to establish an annual Morris Hansen lecture, featuring eminent statisticians from the Uniter! States en c!
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Sample Survey Methods and Theory, vol. I Methods and Applications; vol.
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Relative efficiencies of various sampling units in population inquiries.
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Sample Survey Methods and Theory, vol. I: Methods and Applications; vol.
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2~2~:18090. Originally presented in the videotaped Pfizer Colloquium lecture, University of Connecticut, October 30, 1985; videotape in the American Statistical Association collection of lectures by distinguished statisticians.
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Regression estimates in federal welfare quality control programs.
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