type="main" xml:id="rssc12032-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Responses to a set of indicators, or items, or variables are often used in social sciences for measuring unobserved constructs as attitudes. Latent variable models, which are also known as factor analysis models, are used for linking the observed...</p>

type="main" xml:id="rssc12028-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>We consider the effect of non-ignorable dropout in the analysis of residential mobility in household panel surveys. To investigate the effect of such dropout, we consider two types of selection model: the first allows dropout to depend directly on...</p>

We propose a semiparametric multilevel survival model for clustered duration data in which the effect of a continuous covariate is represented by an unspecified, possibly non-linear, function. This model makes no distributional assumption about the cluster level random effects. The performance...