{{Short description|American biostatistician and environmental statistician}} '''Virginia Marie Lesser''' is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician known for her research on non-sampling error, survey methodology, and agricultural applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics and chair of the statistics department at Oregon State University.{{r|osu}}
==Education and career== Lesser completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, ''A Comparison of Periodic Survey Designs Employing Multi-Stage Sampling'', was supervised by William D. Kalsbeek.{{r|mgp}}
At Oregon State, she has been Director of the Survey Research Center since 1993.{{r|src}} She became the first woman promoted to full professor in statistics at Oregon State, in 2009.{{r|hist}}
==Recognition== Lesser became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2010.{{r|fasa}} She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.{{r|isi}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
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<ref name=hist>{{citation|url=https://stat.oregonstate.edu/content/history-department-statistics|title=History of Department of Statistics|publisher=Oregon State University|accessdate=2018-10-28}}</ref>
<ref name=isi>{{citation|url=https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|title=Individual members|publisher=International Statistical Institute|accessdate=2018-10-28|archive-date=2017-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729010059/https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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<ref name=osu>{{citation|url=https://stat.oregonstate.edu/content/lesser-virginia-ginny|title=Lesser, Virginia (Ginny)|publisher=Oregon State University|accessdate=2018-10-28}}</ref>
<ref name=src>{{citation|url=https://stat.oregonstate.edu/src/survey-research-center-staff|title=Survey Research Center Staff|publisher=Oregon State University|accessdate=2018-10-28}}</ref>
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