This is a grant under the Scientific Computing Research Equipment for the Mathematical Sciences program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Sciences Foundation. This program supports the purchase of special purpose computing equipment dedicated to the conduct of research in the mathematical sciences. This equipment is required for several research projects and would be difficult to justify for one project alone. Support from the National Science Foundation is coupled with discounts and contributions from manufacturers and with substantial cost-sharing from the institutions submitting the proposal. This program is an example of academic, corporate, and government cooperation in the support of the basic research in the mathematical sciences. This equipment will be used to support five research projects in the School of Statistics of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: computationally intensive diagnostic statistics, the investigators are Cook, Hawkins, and Weisberg; Bayesian residual analysis, predictive diagnostics, and outlier detection, the investigators are Chaloner and Geisser; environments for statistical computing and dynamic graphics, the investigator is Tierney; relaxed boundary smoothing splines and data analysis, the investigators are Larntz and Oehlert; Dirichlet approaches to nonparametric problems, the investigator are Dickey, Lane, and Pruitt.
