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.
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 ...
The mixed effects model for binary responses due to Conaway (1990, A Random Effects Model for Binary Data) is extended to accommodate ordinal responses in general and discrete time survival data with ...