The statistical assessment of undernutrition is usually restricted to a pairwise analysis of anthropometric indicators. The main objective of this study was to model the associations between underweight, stunting and wasting and to check whether multidimensionality of undernutrition can be...

For analyzing item response data, item response theory (IRT) models treat the discrete responses to the items as driven by underlying continuous latent traits, and consider the form of conditional probability of the response to each item given the latent traits. In a similar fashion, log-linear...

Disertacijoje nagrinėjami kai kurie kategorinių požymių statistinės analizėsuždaviniai – ryšių struktūros bei modelio parinkimo ir jo parametrų įvertinimouždaviniai. Disertacijos tikslas – pasiūlyti ryšių struktūros tarp kategoriniųpožymių įvertinimo metodą tuo atveju,...

The dissertation considers some problems in the statistical analysis of categoricalvariables – the dependence structure between categorical variablesand the problems of selecting and assessing the models for this structure. Theaim of this dissertation is to propose the method to estimate...

In this paper, an overview of the observed-score equating (OSE) process is provided from the perspective of a unifying equating framework (von Davier in von Davier (Ed.), Statistical models for test equating, scaling, and linking, Springer, New York, pp. 1–17, <CitationRef CitationID="CR49">2011b</CitationRef>). The framework includes...</citationref>

In this paper, we investigate cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. The paper is particularly focused on examining the impact of economic conditions, welfare state regimes and employment regulation on wage mobility. We apply a...