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...faculty and their relations with industry. The deal involving GP120 and its undisclosed contract signals the return of the problems that plagued Harvard a decade ago. If Essex owns shares in Cambridge Bioscience, did he work on GP120 in the hopes of someday profiting from his work? Did he use his position at the company to influence its decision to buy the chemical's license, and did he use his university post to steer the patent toward Cambridge Bioscience...
...builds on the idea of the capture-recapture" statistical technique, Donald B. Rubin, chairman of the Statistics Department, says of his census modification technique. Rubin explains the new procedure as similar to the method biology researchers use to study bird and animal populations. "It's like tagging fish in a pond, releasing them, and catching them again to see how the population has changed," he says...
...homes in various regions across the country and then intensively studying their group dynamics after a normal U.S. census is taken by mail, said Rubin, who has been at Harvard for four years. The scientists, who include Rubin, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hal Stern and four graduate students, then use the results from these segmented studies to adjust the census' total population count...
Representatives from New York City, for example, are rallying in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D.-Calif.), which will force the Census Bureau to use statistical adjustments in the 2000 census. The bill is receiving such support, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, because New York City officials estimate that the 1980 census missed more than 800,000 New York residents, causing the metropolis to lose $25 million in federal funding...
...would have suggested to them that they use the research but not use it until the [1990] census was over. They need to look at the figures before proposing an adjustment, but it should be a [permanent policy in the future]," Barabba says...