e-mail:jtanur@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Areas of Interest:Statistics; methodology; survey research; social psychology.
BIOGRAPHY
Judith M. Tanur (BS, Psychology, Columbia; MA, Mathematical Statistics, Columbia; PhD, Sociology, SUNYSB) is Distinguished Teaching Professor. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of International Statistical Institute, and recipient of ASA’s Founders’ Award. She edited International Encyclopedia of Statistics, Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, and Questions about Questions: Inquiries into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys. She co-authored (with S. James Press) The Subjectivity of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach. She was a member of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council, chairing its Advanced Research Seminar on Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology, co-chaired the SSRC Committee on Cognition and Survey Research, was an ASA/NSF/BLS Senior Research Fellow and a co-editor of Chance, served on the ASA Advisory Committee for SIPP, NSF Panels and visiting committees. She serves on the Advisory Committee to the NSF Director for SBE, the Board of Trustees of the NORC and the Board of Directors of SSRC.
RECENT BOOKS
A Potential Early Warning System: Final Report on China Anomie Project Biel, Switzerland: Swiss Academy for Development. 1997 With Peter Atteslander, Hanlin Li, and Qi Wang.
Cognition and Survey Research New York: Wiley-Interscience. 1999 Edited with Monroe G. Sirken, Douglas J. Hermann, Susan Schechter, Norbert Schwarz, and Roger Tourangeau.
The Subjectivity Of Scientists and the Bayesian Approach New York: John Wiley and Sons 2001 (with S. James Press)
Recent Papers
Looking Backwards and Forwards" Chapter 1 of Cognition and Survey Research edited by Monroe G. Sirken, Douglas J. Hermann, Susan Schechter, Norbert Schwarz, Judith M. Tanur, and Roger Tourangeau. New York: Wiley-Interscience. 1998
“Experimenting with Respondent-Generated Intervals in Sample Surveys” with discussion in Survey Research at the Intersection of Statistics and Cognitive Psychology, Working Paper Series #28m Monroe G. Sirkin, Editor, National Center for Health Statistics, Jan. 2000, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pp. 1-18 (with S. James Press).
“Respondent-Generated Interval Estimation to Reduce Item-Nonresponse” Applied Statistical Science V, Nova Science Publishers, in press (with S. James Press).
“Sample Surveys: Cognitive Aspects of Survey Design” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, in press.
“Sample Surveys: Some History of Sampling” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, in press (with Stephen Fienberg).
