William Shannon  wrote

    (Peter, you may not be interested in covariate selection since your data will always 
     consist of the 900 measurements.)

I actually am interested in variable selection.  One of our tasks here is to find a small subset of the 900 measurements that works reasonably well.  

Peter

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