We consider multivariate regression where new dependent variables are consecutively added during the experiment (or in time).So, viewed at the end of the experiment, the number of observations decreases with each added variable. The explanatory variables are observed throughout.In a previous...

Diagnostic tests are used in a wide range of behavioral, medical, psychosocial, and healthcare-related research. Test sensitivity and specificity are the most popular measures of accuracy for diagnostic tests. Available methods for analyzing longitudinal study designs assume fixed gold or...

We propose a procedure to assess a measure for a latent phenomenon, starting from the observation of a wide set of ordinal variables affected by structured missing data. The proposal is based on Nonlinear PCA technique to be jointly used with an ad hoc imputation method for the treatment of...