A mixture model for longitudinal partially ranked data

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

June 1, 2014

Summary:

This article discusses the use of mixture models in the analysis of longitudinal partially ranked data, where respondents, for example, choose only the preferred and second preferred out of a set of items. To model such data we convert it to a set of paired comparisons. Covariates can be incorporated into the model. We use a nonparametric mixture to account for unmeasured variability in individuals over time. The resulting multi-valued mass points can be interpreted as latent classes of the items. The work is illustrated by two questions on (post)materialism in three sweeps of the British Household Panel Survey.

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Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 43 , p.722 -734

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2013.815779

ISSN

3610926

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