A Hierarchical Latent Variable Model for Ordinal Data from a Customer Satisfaction Survey with “No Answer” Responses

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 94, Issue 445, 1999, Pages 43-52

  Bradlow, Eric T ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Item nonresponse; Item response theory; Model checking; Nonignorable missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293858     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1999.10473817     Document Type: Article

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