While path analysis has great advantages for bridging the gap between sociological theory and statistical analysis, a major obstacle is the requirement that interval scales be assumed for the data.

This paper considers the class of sequential ordinal models in relation to other models for ordinal response data. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, based on the approach of Albert and Chib ...

The data for this example are from Ezzet and Whitehead (1991), who describe a crossover experiment on two groups of patients using two different inhaler devices (A and B). Patients from group 1 used ...