As part of the analysis of the external effectiveness of university education, a special area of attention is represented by graduates’ mobility for occupational reasons. Understanding whether or not the various types of degree courses affect mobility to a significant extent and estimating the...

CUB models represent a new approach for the analysis of categorical ordinal data. The relevant domain of study is the specification and estimation of the behaviour of respondents when faced to ratings by analysing the relationship among ordinal scores and observed covariates. The increasing use...

In this paper we discuss the use of dummy variables as sensible covariates in a class of statistical models which aim at explaining the subjects’ preferences with respect to several items. After a brief introduction to CUB models, the work considers statistical interpretations of dummy...