Dr Ioannis Kosmidis’ work on models for ordinal responses will
be published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical
Methodology) and is
expected to appear in late 2013. The article is titled “Improved estimation
in cumulative link models” and concerns new estimation methods which
produce estimators that are always finite, have smaller bias and mean squared
error than the traditional maximum likelihood estimators, and also respect the
properties that make cumulative link models a standard choice for the analysis
of ordinal data that has influenced practice.