Hi everyone,

Lisa did a great job with the overview paper. We thought about using
wavelets in both steps of the modeling and about some ways that
relevant data could be recorded on a regular frequency basis, such as
grocery scanner data (medicines, chicken soup etc.) being collected at
a central agency or public servants such as police logging in their
general health symptoms on each shift.

Upcoming we have
Thanksgiving next week
Dave on stationarity (unit root) tests - ppt file online.
Curt on the second scan statistic paper
That will be our last meeting (Dec. 8) for the year.
Be thinking about when we want to start in January - a possibility is
the first week in Jan.

Francisco sent a couple of interesting papers and will present one to
start us off in January. We may also want to revisit the computer
security thread we had talked about earlier. David has been in touch with
Cary Priebe who has expressed an interest in interacting with us and in
particular may have something to say on computer security. There is a
group at NCSU currently interested in this issue as well. David urged the
SAMSI postdocs to be active in pursuing research opportunities.

THere are many papers on our list that can still be presented.

Myron is tentatively on tap for a threshold autoregression talk. The
book by Howell Tong - Nonlinear Time Series : A dynamic Systems Approach,
pub. by Oxford University Press I believe, is a standard reference on this
and other nonlinear models.

I also mentioned a method to get some nice handouts from powerpoint.

Open the presentation in powerpoint.
Select file->print
A popup window saying "print what?" will open.
Select the down arrow V on the right of "print what?"
Choose "handouts" - you will see a diagram indicating 6 per page. This can

be changed. That's it - just select print and you'll have a nice handout.

OK - that's it from me except - Have a great Thanksgiving!!!

Dave