Sara Lynne Stokes is an American statistician at Southern Methodist University where she is a professor and chair of the Department of Statistical Science.
Her research interests include the modeling of non-sampling errors, and mark and recapture methods;[1] she is also an expert on opinion polls.
[6] She earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
[4] Her dissertation, supervised by Norman Lloyd Johnson, was An Investigation of the Consequences of Ranked Set Sampling.
[7] Stokes became a faculty at Vanderbilt University, but in 1979 began working for the U.S. Government as a statistician, first at the Patuxent Research Refuge of the U.S.