Among the elements contributing to the enrichment of the melody are microtonality (the use of intervals smaller than a Western half step or lying between a half step and a Western whole step) and the variety of intervals used.
"Iris," John Coltrane From "Stellar Regions" (1967) "Very symbolic use of intervals, motifs during the last stage of J. C.'s work — in his compositions/improvisations, John chooses a phrase and imbues it with subjective meaning, his message.
In light of the main debate in the philosophy of statistics, the use of interval-valued priors indeed forms an attractive extension of Bayesian statistics: it allows us to refrain from choosing a specific prior, and thereby presents a rapprochement to the classical view on statistics.
The use of intervals in order to take into account imprecision and vagueness in handling preferences is well known in the literature, but a general theory on how such models behave is lacking.
Other strengths are the calculation of person-years at risk and the use of interval-censoring, which takes into account the fact that conversion to a more severe glucose tolerance state occurs before the time of the examination.
