Word: rubin
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Worry over the future of a small Statistics Department probably ceased when Harvard offered Donald B. Rubin a senior professorship. Boasting a string Ivy credits and a ten-year stint at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., Rubin adds a practical knowledge of statistics and a willingness to share his experience...
...newest addition in a department of four senior and three junior professors, Rubin stresses the importance of "recon-structing the bridges" that Professors C. Frederick Mosteller and William G. Kochran built at the department's inception 25 years...
...have know him since he was a graduate student," said Mosteller of Rubin, "and the areas that he is interested in, the social sciences, interest me as well. I expect his joining us to increase the relationship between the Statistics department and the social sciences...
Once Statistics department chairmen, Mosteller is now primarily active in the department of Public Health, Rubin said. Kochran retired...
...There is an enormous amount of statistics being taught at Harvard and very little by Harvard statisticians," said Rubin. Though "not necessarily bad," he continues, "it suggests a market" for those trained in statistics. It's a profession he describes as "nice for someone who has a broad interest in the sciences...