Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...

Existing methods for the analysis of clustered, ordinal data are inappropriate for certain applications. We propose latent variable models for clustered ordinal data which are derived as natural ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aspects of Wilson's (1974a) critique of the interpretations and use of ordinal statistics applied to the regression and path analysis of ...