Latent variable modeling comprises a suite of methodologies that infer unobserved constructs from observable indicators, thereby enabling researchers to quantify abstract phenomena across diverse ...

Existing methods for the analysis of clustered, ordinal data are inappropriate for certain applications. We propose latent variable models for clustered ordinal data which are derived as natural ...

Following Cox & Wermuth (1994, 2002), we show that the distribution of a set of binary observable variables, induced by a certain discrete latent variable model, may be approximated by a quadratic ...