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Leslie Kish

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Leslie Kish (July 27, 1910October 7, 2000) was an American statistician of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

His main work is the book Survey Sampling (1965), where he summarized and developed the current theory of sampling and survey design. He was also a noted teacher at the University of Michigan and on regular visits to the London School of Economics.