-real causality and social-economic causality in a single multivariate framework. We use a large number of variables to construct the …

Introduction: Conventional statistical methods for multivariate data (e.g., discriminant/regression) are based on the … multivariate ordinal data to assess the overall risk of HIV infection based on different types of behavior or the overall … clinical and histological characteristics. Conclusion: Multivariate ordinal data are frequently observed to assess …