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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Participants
Pages 165-170

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... from Harvard University in 1960. His research interests include the study of psychological well-~eing and assessments of the quality of life, particularly through the use of large-scale sample surveys; nonsampling errors in sample surveys; and social indicators.
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... in 1962 from Harvard University in social relations. He has previously taught at Stanford University and Rutgers University and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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... He has been a study director at Michigan' s Survey Research Center, where his methods research emphasized" cognitive and behavioral approaches to survey measures of health, employment, and crime victimization, and he has served as associate director of the Statistical Research Division at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. While a senior social scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, he designed and evaluated much of the measurement for a large social experiment concerned with the demand for health insurance.
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... He has worked on statistical problem at Brookhaven National Laboratories, Northrop Aircraft Corporation, Douglas Aircraft Corporation, and the RAND Corporation. Hin research and numerous publications include work on various aspects or Bayesian inference, subjective probability, and group Judgment formulation involving sample surveys.
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... He has conducted research on cognitive and social-psychological topics and has served as a statistical consultant on a number of national surveys. He has also taught at Connecticut College, Yale University, and Columbia University.
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