Survey expert Joseph Waksberg, 90
Posted: Friday, January 13th, 2006 3:50 amJoseph Waksberg, who helped invent a widely used method of conducting phone surveys so they efficiently reach people with unlisted as well as listed phone numbers, has died. He was 90. …
With Mitofsky, Waksberg developed methods that improved the efficiency in drawing a representative sample of the population using random digit dialing, a crucial technique in telephone polling. …
He served for 30 years as a consultant on election night predictions for CBS and later for a cooperative of news media. … Read full obituary
