Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Oct., 2005), pp. 497-510 (14 pages) Questions: Are ordinal data appropriately treated by multivariate methods in numerical ecology? If not, what are the ...

Generalized estimating equations (Liang, K. Y. and Zeger, S., 1986, Biometrika 73, 13-22) allow longitudinal or clustered data to be modeled with minimal assumptions about their dependence structures.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a simple technique he has used with good success, previously unpublished and without a standard name. The goal of an ordinal classification problem ...