A quasi-score approach to the analysis of ordered categorical data via a mixed heteroskedastic threshold model.docVIP

A quasi-score approach to the analysis data via mixed a Station de génétique quantitative et appliquée, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, Centre de recherches de Jouy-en-Josas, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas cedex, France (Received 15 December 1998; accepted 21 April 1999) Abstract - This article presents an extension of the methodology developed by Gilmour et al. [19], for ordered categorical data, taking into account geneity of residual variances of latent variables. Heterogeneity of residual variances ’ quasi-score estimators; ii) an approximation of the variance-covariance matrix