A general class of regression models for ordinal data is developed and discussed. These models utilize the ordinal nature of the data by describing various modes of stochastic ordering and this ...

Such data could be considered ordinal (where political learning is a continuum from less liberal to more liberal) or the data could be considered categorical. Mapping Ordinal Labels to Float Targets ...

Data is classified as one of two key types, qualitative or quantitative. But other categories of data exist within these types, including nominal, discrete, and more.

However, one often needs to make inequality comparisons where either the cardinalization is unknown or the underlying data are categorical. We propose an alternative approach to inequality analysis ...