Lynne Stokes, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistical Science
Lynne Stokes, Ph. D., has been a Professor of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University since 2001. Her previous teaching experience includes over 15 years at the University of Texas at Austin as a professor in the department of Management Science and Information Systems and as a research fellow. Prior to that she served for two years as a mathematical statistician in the Center for Social Science Research at the U.S. Bureau of the Census in Washington, D.C. Dr. Stokes earned her Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Stokes’ research interests include sampling methods, modeling of non-sampling errors in surveys, and disclosure limitation methods. Her research has been supported by the Institute for Educational Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dell Computer, IBM Computer, and Tivoli Systems. Dr. Stokes has served on a National Academy of Sciences Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies and Panel on Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods. She has authored or co-authored over 40 refereed papers and book chapters. She is a past editor of The American Statistician and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Official Statistics, Survey Methodology, and Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Selected Publications: Refereed Journals and Proceedings
“An Estimator of Number of Species from Quadrat Sampling,” (with P. Haas and Y. Liu), Biometrics 61, 000-000 (2005).
“Antecedents and consequences of residential choice and school transfer. “ (with T. Falbo, R. Glover & L. Holcombe), Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(29) (2005).
“Using Spreadsheet Solvers in Sample Design” (with J. Plummer), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 44, 527-546 (2004).
“Using Auxiliary Information for Improving Estimation in the Number of Species Problem,” Statistica Sinica 13, 655-671 (2003).
“Comment on ‘Can a Statistician Deliver?’ ” Journal of Official Statistics 17, 103-106 (2001).
“Acceptance Sampling with Rectification when Classification Errors are Present,” (with M. Anderson, B. Greenberg, S.L. Stokes), Journal of Quality Technology 33, 493-505 (2001).
“Estimating the Number of Classes in a Finite Population” (P. Haas and L. Stokes), Journal of the American Statistical Association 93, 1475-1487 (1998).
“Estimation of the CDF of a Finite Population using a Calibration Sample” (M. Luo, L. Stokes, T. Sager) Environmental and Ecological Statistics 15, 346-352 (1997).
“Developing an Optimal Call Scheduling Strategy for a Telephone Survey” (B. Greenberg and S.L. Stokes), Journal of Official Statistics 6, 421-435 (1990).
“The Optimal Design of Quality Control Samples to Detect Interview Cheating,” (P.P. Biemer and S.L. Stokes), Journal of Official Statistics 5, 23-40 (1989).
“Estimation of Interviewer Effects for Categorical Items in a Random Digit Dial Telephone Survey,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83, 623-630 (1988).
Estimation of the Correlated Component of Response Variance for Categorical Variables,” (S.L. Stokes and M. Mulry), Journal of Official Statistics 3, 389-401 (1987).
Book Chapters
“Interviewer Effects,” in Encyclopedia of Research Methods for the Social Sciences, M. Lewis-Beck, A. Brayman and T.F. Liao, Editors, Sage Publications (2003).
“Identifying and Adjusting for Recall Error with Application to Fertility Surveys,” (with T. Pullum), Chapter 31 (pp. 711-732), Survey Measurement and Process Quality, John Wiley and Sons (1997).
“Some Recent Results on the Modeling and Estimation of Measurement Errors in Surveys,” with P.P. Biemer and S.L. Stokes), Chapter 24 (pp. 487-516) in Measurement Errors in Surveys, John Wiley and Sons (1991).