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In Memoriam
It is with great sadness that we note Georg M became a latent variable on March 13th, 2008 @t=89 years. I believe I can safely speak for all of us when I say that his uniqueness will be missed. As is nearly axiomatic of all interrupted time series, the determinant of his state space as become zero and the variance/covariance matrix of his data box is no longer invertible because t+1 does not exist. His eigenvector remains with us, however, and I believe I can speak for all of us when I say that the trace of his characteristic roots will continue to affect our waking moment generating functions for many lags to come.
Dr. M's series began as a mere derivative product of Marie Kronecker and Johann Dott in the town of Toeplitz, Germany. Although little is known of this series from t=1 to 18 years, it was rumored that the inner product of these functions was nearly singular during this time, betraying a set of time bound relations which were close, but as a result, nearly unstable and possibly chaotic.
In the early fifties, Dr. M became an element of the mapping of the United States, joining our department as an eager assistant professor. After a period of temporary nonstationarity characteristic of growth processes, Dr. M exchanged confidence bands with Alice S, and, over the period of their subsequent joint covariation over the next 56 years, they produced two sets of twins, one pair identical, and the other sharing no common genetic variance.
Professionally, Dr. M was described by his cofunctions in the department as smoothly differentiable and partially affine. Overall, he was generally considered ergodic, though prone to bounts of cyclicity and eccentricity characteristic of functions of his class.
Dr. M's wife, Alice, their four children, and three subsequent second order derivatives have not been right censored.
Final exponentiations of his decay function will be carried out in McAlester Hall Room 208 this Monday at the University of Missouri using his trusty Mannheim loglog polyphase duplex slide rule. Those wishing to contribute closing parentheses or brackets in his memory are welcome to submit them to the department's memorial fund.
Placement of the final semi-colon will be announced at a later date.

R.i.P. Q.e.D.
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