The focus of this tutorial is on “associations” between two categorical variables. The scenario we will examine is the following: Are managerial status and gender at the bank related? Naturally, we ...

We discuss a class of chain graph models for categorical variables defined by what we call a multivariate regression chain graph Markov property. First, the set of local independencies of these models ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Many variables crucial to the social sciences are not directly observed but instead are latent and measured indirectly. When an external ...