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According to TIME, "Groves and his statistical models could still play a major role shaping the census of the future." <ref>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889793,00.html</ref>
 
According to TIME, "Groves and his statistical models could still play a major role shaping the census of the future." <ref>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889793,00.html</ref>
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== Groves' Educational Background ==
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Groves was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a college town.  He obtained a bachelor's degree in sociology from Dartmouth College (1970), a master's in sociology and statistics from the University of Michigan (1973), and Ph.D from the same institution in Ph.D in sociology in 1975, where he then taught for 15 years before being appointed as an associate director of the 1990 Census.  In 1992, Groves returned and taught at the University of Michigan for another 17 years, eventually heading the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center.  His work has focused on "correcting" non-responsive errors in polling.<ref name="Who Runs Gov">http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Robert_M._Groves</ref>
    
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