his article considers the supermarket manager’s problem of forecasting demand for a product as a function of the product’s attributes and of market control variables. To forecast sales on the stock keeping unit (SKU) level, a good model should account for product attributes, historical sales levels, and store specifics, and to control for marketing mix. One of the challenges here is that many v...

A key challenge for statisticians dealing with microarray experiments is to develop statistical models and procedures that are both honest reflections of the many sources of variability present in such experiments as well as fast algorithms to be able to give answers in real time. We argue that this requires a keen understanding of biological and physical processes as well as a pragmatic mix of...

This thesis presents results from an exploratory project to construct a system that automatically composes electronic music. The premise of the project is that composition can be viewed as a search problem with good songs being maxima in the search space of all possible songs. A Genetic Algorithm was used to compose short melodic samples and an agent-based system would mix the samples together....

Pancreaticoduodenal transplantation was performed with cyclosporine and steroid immunosuppressive therapy in 10 mongrel dogs that had pancreaticoduodenectomy. There was an average animal survival of 50.6 days and an average duration of normoglycemia of 41.8 days. We suggest that pancreaticoduodenal transplantation, which was abandoned as a clinical procedure 10 years ago, be reconsidered for cl...