Steele, Fiona; Goldstein, Harvey - In: Sociological Methods & Research 35 (2006) 1, pp. 137-153
The authors present a factor model for the analysis of categorical responses with a two-level hierarchical structure. The model allows for multiple, potentially correlated factors at each level as well as covariate effects on the responses. Estimation using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)...