Willem Saris

Willem Egbert (Wim) Saris (born 8 July 1943) is a Dutch sociologist and Emeritus Professor Statistics and Methodology at the University of Amsterdam, especially known for his work on "Causal modelling in nonexperimental research".

Biography

Born in Leiden studied Sociology at the Utrecht University from 1961 receiving his MA in 1968. In 1979 he received his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1979 with the thesis entitled "Methods and techniques for the analysis of survey data with measurement error" advised by Rob Mokken.

Saris started his academic career as in 1967 as research assistant at the University of Utrecht, Sociology Department, and was Assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam at the Department of Methods from 1968 to 1982. In 1983 he was appointed Professor Statistics and Methodology at the University of Amsterdam, the Department of Methods (nowadays the Department of Techniques for Political Science). From 1989 to 1995 he also directed the Foundation Telepanel, Amsterdam. In 2006 he retired from the University of Amsterdam, and accepted a position at the ESADE in Barcelona, Spain as Professor in methodology. Since 2009 he holds the same position at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Saris

Saris (Arabic: ساريس‎) was a Palestinian Arab village that was depopulated during the major offensive launched by the Haganah on 6 April 1948. Called Operation Nachshon, and launched before the British had left Palestine, its objective was to capture villages between Jerusalem and the coastal plain.

History

Yaqut al-Hamawi noted about Saris in the 1220s that it was "a village of the district round Jerusalem. It lies half-way between Jerusalem and Ar Ramlah, and 4 hours from either place".

Ottoman era

During Ottoman rule in Palestine, in 1596, Saris was a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jerusalem under the liwa' (district) of Jerusalem and it had a population of 292. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, olives fruit and carob, as well as on goats, beehives and vineyards.

In 1863, the French explorer Victor Guérin found Saris to have an apparently ancient water well, while the houses looked "dilapidated". An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted 57 houses and a population of 169, though the population count included only men.

Šariš Brewery

Šariš Brewery (Slovak: Pivovar Šariš) is the largest brewery in Slovakia, located in Veľký Šariš near Prešov. The brewery has been part of global brewing giant SABMiller (since 1997). Since January 1, 2007, the company Pivovary Topvar has operated in Slovakia, which is the combination of the existing breweries Pivovar Šariš and Topvar. SABMillero owns 100% of the shares of Pivovary Topvar.

Šariš Brewery was founded in 1964. The first litres of Šariš beer were brewed on May 26, 1967.

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Saris (disambiguation)

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People with surname Saris

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