Sharon Lohr has published widely about survey sampling, design of experiments, and statistical methods for education, public policy, law, and crime. She is the author of numerous articles in statistics journals and of the books Sampling: Design and Analysis, now in its third edition, and Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics. Formerly Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University and a Vice President at Westat, she is now Professor Emerita at Arizona State University and a statistical consultant and writer. 

Danny Pfeffermann is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, UK and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the department of statistics and data science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He also served for 9 years as the National Statistician and Director General of Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.