Edited by author 05-14-2002 04:20 PM

As usual I think I lack the background to evaluate  the  relative
merits of the method presented here, but I concur with Kristin as
regards the writing style. Several  technical  issues  made  this
paper more difficult than necessary to read: (1) the inordinately
long, wandering paragraphs; (2) the  incessant  and  inconsistent
use  of  italics,  single  quotes, and double quotes; and (3) the
grammar---there's  even  a  subject-verb  disagreement   in   the
abstract.

I also found it annoying the plots (on page 7) have different  y-
axis  ranges,  and  the x axes are labeled with what appear to be
titles instead of the meanings of the independent variables.

Also,  (*smirk*)  is  the  ``Kulback-Libeler''  divergence   some
knock-off  of the Kullback-Leibler divergence? This reminds me of
the ``Soney'' portable CD player my friend picked up in Taiwan.