We have tried to keep the number of parameters in our approach to a minimum, however the size and shape of the map has a major effect on the outcome and was decided somewhat arbitrarily.
In existing search methods [ 9, 11], the number of features selected for the input and/or the target is decided somewhat arbitrarily.
The number of bootstrap replicates to use is typically decided arbitrarily.
Unfortunately (and I am a drinker) all advice given seems to be decided upon somewhat arbitrarily and although most doctors agree alcohol is bad for you, limits seem to be plucked out of the air with no real evidential statistics.
To deny the human condition of the fertilized egg or embryo is to decide arbitrarily, irrespective of scientific evidence, when life begins and ends, and may eventually support genocide based on physical characteristics, sex, ethnic origin or age.
The difference is that we as a culture seem to have decided arbitrarily that we are comfortable making dogs and cats our pets and comfortable making pigs and fish our dinner.
It was therefore a pilot study, and we decided arbitrarily to enroll 25 patients.
By spending the company's funds on activities that he decides arbitrarily are "socially responsible," a corporate executive, in effect, reduces returns to shareholders and is, therefore, spending someone else's money.
In 1972 the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to allow juries to decide arbitrarily whether a murderer would live or die.
The Socialists "are in denial of democracy and decide arbitrarily" on projects, Mr. Mitterrand said, while criticizing Ms. Filippetti simultaneously for an obsession with "democratizing" culture, making it more popular, which he likened to the snake in the Garden of Eden.
