Comment: Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs for Marginalized Models

Carolyn J. Anderson (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a professor of Educational Psychology and senior distinguished scholar in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also has affiliations with the Departments of Psychology and Statistics. Her research lies at the intersection of statistical models for discrete data and psychometrics. The main focus of her scholarship is the development and understanding of models for observed multivariate categorical data that can be derived from underlying latent variables. She has also collaborated on numerous applied projects, many of which involved multilevel modeling or categorical data.