摘要: It is increasingly common for analysts to seek out the opinions of individuals and organizations using attitudinal scales such as degree satisfaction or importance attached an issue. Examples include levels obesity, seriousness a health condition, attitudes towards service levels, on products, voting intentions, clarity contracts. Ordered choice models provide relevant methodology capturing sources influence that explain made amongst set ordered alternatives. The methods have evolved level sophistication can allow heterogeneity in threshold parameters, explanatory variables (through random parameters), decomposition residual variance. This book brings together contributions modeling from number disciplines, synthesizing developments over last fifty years, suggests useful extensions account wide range choice.