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{\flushleft{DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS}\\
  University of Wisconsin\\
  1300 University Ave.\\
  Madison, WI 53706\\}
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    {\large TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 11XX}\\
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\Large{\bf{\sf \textcolor{\Mahogany}{
The Partitioned LASSO-Pattersearch Algorithm With 
Application to Gene Expression Data}}}
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\phantom{} & {\sf \textcolor{\Mahogany}{Weiliang Shi}\footnote{Research supported in part by NIH Grant EY09946,
NSF Grant  DMS-0906818 and
ONR Grant N0014-09-1-0655.}}, & \phantom{x} & {\sf \textcolor{\Mahogany}{Grace Wahba}\footnote{Research supported in part by NIH Grant EY09946,
NSF Grant  DMS-0906818 and
ONR Grant N0014-09-1-0655.}},\\
& Sanofi-Aventis           & & Department of Statistics   \\
&                          & & University of Wisconsin-Madison \\[5mm]
\phantom{} & {\sf \textcolor{\Mahogany}{Rafael Irizarry}\footnote{Research supported in part by Irizarri 
.}}, & \phantom{x} & {\sf \textcolor{\Mahogany}{Hector Corrada Bravo}\footnote{Research supported in part by Hector grant, and or my grant. 
NIH Grant EY09946,
NSF Grant  DMS-0906818 and
ONR Grant N0014-09-1-0655.}},\\
& Department of Biostatistics & & Department of Computer Science   \\
& Johns Hopkins University    & & University of Maryland-College Park\\[5mm]
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{ {\sf \textcolor{blue}{Stephen Wright}}\footnote{Research supported in part 
by NSF Grants DMS-0914524 and DMS-0906818.}, \\
Department of Computer Sciences\\
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
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