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Dr. Tomal conducted his research in the field of Statistics. He developed new statistical methods to search more efficiently for potential pharmaceutical drug molecules in a large collection of chemical compounds. His methods capitalized on the richness of information contained in high-dimensional data, which have many useful variables.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics (PhD) - graduated in 2013