Anders Nicolai Kiær

Anders Nicolai Kiær (Drammen, 15 September 1838 – Oslo, 16 April 1919) was a Norwegian statistician who first proposed that a representative sample rather than a complete enumerating survey could and should be used to collect information about a population.

[1] He was born in Drammen[2] as the son of ship-owner Niels Andersen Kiær (1802–1887), and brother of physician and historian Frantz Casper Kiær.

in 1860, and was hired as head of the statistics department in the Ministry of the Interior in 1868.

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