virilized? What causes the increased adrenal production of androgens at puberty? Why is aldosterone secretion markedly increased during pregnancy? How does cortisol protect against vascular collapse during stress? These are but a few of the many intriguing questions raised by the discussants. There are some errors in the book and one discussant in particular seemed to have a bad day. The book, ...

In this paper, an experiment was conducted to assess the impact of online deliberation on citizens’ attitudes. Specifically, this research compared pre and post deliberation opinions of participants who deliberated online via an asynchronous platform regarding the issue of political opinion polls. Results indicate that online deliberation had a positive effect on citizens’ attitudes since it wa...

We would like to thank Professors John Rust and Rick Staelin for their thoughtful commentaries on our paper. It is an honor to have these two individuals as our discussants, as their seminal early work (on estimating dynamic programming problems and salesforce compensation issues respectively) have had a critical in‡uence on the literatures leading up to our paper, and on our own work as well. ...

First, I would like to congratulate the authors for an interesting application of their semiparametric quantile regression model to longitudinal human growth data. On an earlier occasion, I had an opportunity to collaborate with the authors on applying this method for the purpose of constructing semilongitudinal growth charts for height and for body mass index. As my background is in medicine r...

In this paper we present a method for collecting synchronized psychophysiological signals and video stream in a real work-life setting, during performance review discussion between the manager and subordinate. A split screen video showing the both discussants is prepared, including the visualized psychophysiological signals. The video is used in coaching sessions organized to the managers. The ...

Costly genetically engineered therapies, which threaten to cripple the health care industry economy and undermine the common good if applied indiscriminately, loom on the horizon. The spectrum of applicable candidates include moribund nursing home patients at the end of life. They will be fair game for therapy that will ultimately send them back to nursing homes to return later with the same co...

We would like to thank all the discussants for their contributions. Our paper attempts only a first step towards a satisfactory linkage between complexity theory and coding-based inference and these discussions will help to blaze the paths for future exploration. We also take this opportunity to remind the reader that, in our opinion, MDL and MML agree on many, many points. While we certainly d...

We would like to thank Professor Loh and Professor Gelman for their thoughtful comments. Some of the detailed points that the discussants bring up remind us to emphasize that in many regards our article offers only an overview of the scientific questions we aim to address and of the methods, models, and algorithms that we employ. Some technical details are omitted in the interest of readability...

We thank all of the discussants for their valuable insights and elaborations. In particular, we thank Prof. Clarke and Dr. Severinski for their conjectured extension to Theorem 3, the product of many personal discussions both in Austin and in Spain (and probably many more hours of work in Miami). The conjecture seems quite likely to be true, and strikes us as a nice way of understanding adaptiv...

was provided by Sheri Meland, Shauna Morimoto, and Sara Wakefield (University of Wisconsin) and Christine Schwartz (UCLA). Administrative data used were constructed under the supervision of Patricia Brown, CSDE Data Manager; survey data are from the Survey of Wisconsin Works Families, Margaret Krecker, Survey Manager. Steven Cook provided expert help with administrative data on child support pa...