Rejoinder.

The article focuses on the comments and encouragement of the discussants of the periodical "The American Statistician" who helped to build the statistical field. Jay Kadane shared themes with Steve Fienberg, wherein both pointed to the origin of capture-recapture modeling in census adjustment. Fienberg review the history behind the methodology and the development of the log-linear models. Fritz Scheuren has more field experiences in creating human rights statistics.