For the patient's and family's preferences on the site of death the following four combinations were made: both prefer to die at home, only the patient prefers at home, only the family prefers at home, neither prefers at home (including those whose preferences were unknown).
The only information contained in an ordinal utility representation is how the agent whose preferences are being represented orders options, from least to most preferable.
To illustrate this type of control, consider a population with three voters whose preferences over four candidates are given in the table below: Note that everyone prefers candidate B over candidate D. Nonetheless, a chairman can ask the right questions so that candidate D ends up being elected.
The simple model had agents who never died and whose preferences never changed.
Smith, whose preferences have been well concealed, is said to be an excellent chairman - collegiate, sensible and well read.
You're probably familiar with most of those, but it's debatable how much clout the strategy actually had inside the US, with an audience whose preferences remain strongly insular.
Working with Ms. Williams, whose preferences have influenced the line, Ms. Von Furstenberg supplied the star with a wardrobe to wear at the U.S. Open in September.
The set of states of affairs and the set of people whose preferences are relevant for determining Pareto-optimality depend on the context.
The young people, whose preferences led the way in creating new forms, had lived through the revolutionary events of the 1780s and '90s.
