another embodiment for political strategists f x may produce the numerical representation of which demographic variables are relevant to any particular voting trend pharmaceutical companies can use embodiment with fitness function that produces numerical rating of drug clinical test as a function of patients 39 physiological variables multivariate regression models were used to test the hypothesis under varying sets of assumptions in another embodiment insurance companies would like to see f x as a predictor for which demographic variables contribute the highest accident claims so that they could price their premium accordingly credit card companies would like to know which demographic variables truly drive their offerings manufacturing would like to know which process variables are the relevant contributor to producing the highest yield utility companies such as conedison may use the algorithm to build seasonal energy consumption model to forecast electricity demands and therefore forecast their based material petroleum coal or natural gas needs accurately to reduce volatility in their based cost of operation the genetic algorithm is able to search an enormous non linear search space with a number of variables to find an optimal or near optimal solution for optimizing or satisfying numerous objectives specified by the user through the user defined fitness function moreover the present embodiment is not limited to a certain type of genome representation and can be used with numerous types of application by tailoring the fitness function in addition the solution can be found in an acceptable period of time the above detailed description and explanation have clearly shown that the present embodiment is superior to traditional method of specifying multivariate regression models in several areas first the optimal or acceptable solution can.