11.  One possible solution would be to create individual statistical models for each retail account.

12.  Sacramento political analyst Tony Quinn said statistical models based on partisan turnout at previous elections suggest that Republicans largely sat this one out.

13.  Sophisticated statistical models have turned collections from a banking backwater into a high-tech business.

14.  The number of filers and amount of the refunds are estimates based on a statistical model.

15.  The steps include improving the statistical models they use to project winners and more circumspective use of exit polling.

16.  The Times asked Dr. Gary King, a Harvard expert on voting patterns and statistical models, what would have happened had the flawed ballots been discarded.

17.  The state plans to apply statistical models to calculate what share of the cases actually stem from smoking.

18.  The team then built a statistical model of the Chinese language to help the computer make sense of speech.

19.  Those results are then analyzed according to statistical models created by VNS, based on several factors, including past election performances.

20.  To smooth the image into an organic form, the program produces a virtual rubber sheet that molds around the statistical model, a technique called active contour modeling.