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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. 1131}\\
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     October 28, 2006 \\
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\Large{\bf{\sf \textcolor{Mahogany}{LASSO-Patternsearch Algorithm with Application
to\\ Ophthalmology Data}}}
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{\sf \textcolor{Mahogany}{Weiliang Shi}\footnote[1]{Research supported in part by
NIH Grant EY09946, NSF Grants DMS-0505636, DMS-0604572 and ONR Grant
N0014-06-0095}\\
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI \\
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{ \textcolor{Mahogany}{Grace Wahba}\footnotemark[1]\\}
Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science and Department of
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI\\
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\textcolor{Mahogany}{Stephen Wright}\footnote[2]{Research supported
in part by NSF Grants SCI-0330538, DMS-0427689, CCF-0430504, CTS-0456694,
CNS-0540147 and DOE Grant DE-FG02-04ER25627}\\
Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI\\
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\textcolor{Mahogany}{Kristine Lee}\footnote[3]{Research supported
in part by NIH grants EY06594 and EY015286}, 
\textcolor{Mahogany}{Ronald Klein}\footnote[4]{Research support in part by NIH grants 
EY06594, EY015286 and Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Investigator Awards},
\textcolor{Mahogany}{Barbara Klein}\footnotemark[4]\\
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI\\
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