Der fünfte Band der Monographiereihe auf der Grundlage von Konferenzen, die mit Mitteln der American Statistical Association ausgerichtet wurden.

Lars E. Lyberg, PhD, is Chief Scientist at Statistics Sweden. They both have co-edited, with others, Measurement Errors in Surveys, Survey Measurement and Process Quality, and Telephone Survey Methodology - all published by Wiley.

Paul P. Biemer is a distinguished Fellow at RTI International, and Assistant Director for Survey Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.