A study of the effect of dichotomizing ordinal data upon modeling

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 871-887

  Sankey, Steadman S ^a   Weissfeld, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Polychotomous model; Proportional odds; Separate slopes; Test for homogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006778254     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919808813515     Document Type: Article

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