Rachel M. Harter

Rachel Margaret Harter is an American statistician and an expert in small area estimation and survey methodology. She works at RTI International as a senior research statistician and as director of the Behavioral Statistics Program.[1]

Harter grew up in Indiana, and graduated in 1979 from Wittenberg University in Ohio with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She then went to Iowa State University for her graduate studies in statistics, earning a master's degree in 1981 and completing her Ph.D. in 1983.[1] Her dissertation, Small area Estimation Using Nested-Error Models and Auxiliary Data, concerned small area estimation and was supervised by Wayne Fuller.[2]

After completing her doctorate, Harter worked for the Nielsen Corporation doing survey statistics and NORC at the University of Chicago as a survey statistician and head of the statistics and methodology department. She joined RTI in 2011.[1][3]

Harter has published highly cited research on using small area estimation to predict crop areas from satellite data.[4] In 2016, the American Statistical Association recognized Harter as one of their Fellows.[5]

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  3. ^ "NORC Annual Report 2009, page 24 statistics and methodology department" (PDF). Retrieved October 15, 2023.
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