Structural Models for Discrete Data: The Analysis of Discrete Choice

摘要: The Prologue to the 1979 volume of Sociological Methodology noted both recent preoccupation sociologists with categorical data and their growing interest in structural equation theory. Ironically various chapters indicate that these two important trends are progressing largely mutual isolation.' On one hand, models have received attention date presume continuous endogenous variables. other an empirical data-analytic approach has characterized handling discrete data. In many contexts involving a model process generating observations can be specified. One such context is choice, which