About the author Leslie Kish is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan where he was a founder (1947) of the Institute for Social Research and selected as Henry Russel Lecturer for 1981. He is the author of Survey Sampling (Wiley, 1965) and of many articles. Dr. Kish was President of the American Statistical Association (1977), and of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (1983–85). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member of the International Statistical Institute.