Otherwise, your financial, political, and public relations motives could ultimately backfire if your findings are unsubstantiated with careless economic impact estimation techniques.

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The mathematical sciences prize was awarded to David L. Donoho for his "contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets, " the committee said.

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