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We propose a general latent variable model for multivariate ordinal categorical variables, in which both the responses and the covariates are ordinal, to assess the effect of the covariates on the responses and to model the covariance structure of the response variables. A fully Bayesian approach is employed to analyze the model. The Gibbs sampler is used to simulate the joint posterior distribution of the latent variables and the parameters, and the parameter expansion and reparameterization techniques are used to speed up the convergence procedure. The proposed model and method are demonstrated by simulation studies and a real data example.
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Poon, WY., Wang, HB. Latent variable models with ordinal categorical covariates. Stat Comput 22, 1135–1154 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-011-9290-8
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