The Mayor's alternative preference, for expansion at Stansted, had been dismissed for "flimsy reasons".
The method allows one to vary the degree of aggregation and commensuration and to employ alternative preference structures, thus reflecting different degrees of commensuration of and trade-offs (compensation) across objectives.
A number of alternative preference assessment methods may be considered.
As he stands such little chance of being eliminated, it does not matter much whether first-choice Corbyn voters state alternative preferences.
Any film or actor that gets a fifth of the first-place votes is nominated automatically, and the rest are chosen by considering alternative preferences.
And so, Lars' contribution has been in developing these methods, pushing them, and also developing methods about what we call alternative preferences, where people are afraid of not knowing the environment they are living in.
This can be understood as a particularly problematic combination of the previous two criticisms [1, 2] wherein Alexander's personal preferences become the only objective standard of beauty, and anyone with alternative preferences is dismissed as suffering some form of 'mental defect' (Alexander and Eisenman 1982).
These alternative preferences have a significant impact in predicting the risk of insertional gene activation of retroviral gene transfer vectors.
We use this paradigm to demonstrate that our meta-Bayesian framework allows for (i) probabilistic inference on the dynamics of the subject's representation of environmental states, and for (ii) model selection to disambiguate between alternative preferences (loss functions) human subjects could employ when dealing with trade-offs, such as between speed and accuracy.
37 Models can inform decision makers of the impact of such alternative preferences.
In the case of some particular patient's subgroups however, alternative preferences might be found.
