The comparison order may matter in rare cases for deciding which peaks are merged first, but since new means and variances are computed, possible merges that were omitted in the current iteration will be performed in the next iteration.
But as these cases show, neither the guidelines for deciding the cases nor the consequences of the decisions are quite so clear.
For example, it has sole responsibility for deciding cases having to do with the balance of powers of the branches of government and decisions made by government agencies affecting issues like health care, national security, environmental rules, and consumer protections and workplace safety.
In the case of deciding upon a site for a proposed reactor, use is also being made of probabilistic methods in defining the effect of design parameters.
Some people have argued in specific cases that the person would have wanted to donate, thus using the idea of substituted judgement familiar in other cases of deciding for incompetent patients.
The Mercer County prosecutor, Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., has said the police in Ewing Township received the complaint on Dec. 7; he declined to discuss the status of the case or a timetable for deciding whether to pursue criminal charges.
His methods of persuasion are intellectual rather than personal, and they are closely tied to the court's procedure for deciding cases.
"Litigants, the public, and the political branches respect the [US supreme] court's decisions because of the court's reputation for deciding cases based on the law rather than upon the justices' personal interests in outcomes," he said in an email.
Unfortunately for Sunstein, his efforts to limit minimalism's scope reveal that minimalism is a collection of intuitions rather than a coherent framework for deciding cases.
