An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects

Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the proper modeling of ordinal response variables, there is not a clear directive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alvarez, R. Michael, Bailey, Delia, Katz, Jonathan N.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96604