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.
[1] 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.
[2] At Oregon State, she has been Director of the Survey Research Center since 1993.
[3] She became the first woman promoted to full professor in statistics at Oregon State, in 2009.