For an <italic>R</italic>×<italic>R</italic> square contingency table with nominal categories, the present paper proposes a model which indicates that the absolute values of log odds of the odds ratio for rows <italic>i</italic> and <italic>j</italic> and columns <italic>j</italic> and <italic>R</italic> to the corresponding symmetric odds ratio for rows <italic>j</italic> and <italic>R</italic> and columns <italic>i</italic> and <italic>j</italic> are constant...

This paper introduces and applies an EM algorithm for the maximum-likelihood estimation of a latent class version of the grouped-data regression model. This new model is applied to examine the effects of college athletic participation of females on incomes. No evidence for an “athlete”...

In this paper, we utilize normal/independent (NI) distributions as a tool for robust modeling of linear mixed models (LMM) under a Bayesian paradigm. The purpose is to develop a non-iterative sampling method to obtain i.i.d. samples approximately from the observed posterior distribution by...

In the analysis of correlated ordered data, mixed-effect models are frequently used to control the subject heterogeneity effects. A common assumption in fitting these models is the normality of random effects. In many cases, this is unrealistic, making the estimation results unreliable. This...

The current paradigm for the identification of candidate drugs within the pharmaceutical industry typically involves the use of high-throughput screens. High-content screening (HCS) is the term given to the process of using an imaging platform to screen large numbers of compounds for some...

This paper is intended to make a contribution to the ongoing debate about declining social mobility in Great Britain by analyzing mobility tables based on data from the 1991 British Household Panel Survey and the 2005 General Household Survey. The models proposed here generalize Hauser's levels...

For square contingency tables with ordered categories, this paper proposes a measure to represent the degree of departure from the marginal homogeneity model. It is expressed as the weighted sum of the power-divergence or Patil--Taillie diversity index, and is a function of marginal log odds...

Disseminating microdata to the public that provide a high level of data utility, while at the same time guaranteeing the confidentiality of the survey respondent is a difficult task. Generating multiply imputed synthetic datasets is an innovative statistical disclosure limitation technique with...

Individual-level models (ILMs) for infectious disease can be used to model disease spread between individuals while taking into account important covariates. One important covariate in determining the risk of infection transfer can be spatial location. At the same time, measurement error is a...

In this paper, an alternative skew Student-<italic>t</italic> family of distributions is studied. It is obtained as an extension of the generalized Student-<italic>t</italic> (GS-<italic>t</italic>) family introduced by McDonald and Newey [10]. The extension that is obtained can be seen as a reparametrization of the skewed GS-<italic>t</italic> distribution...