Univariate and multirater ordinal cumulative link regression with covariate specific cutpoints

The author considers a reparameterized version of the Bayesian ordinal cumulative link regression model as a tool for exploring relationships between covariates and “cutpoint” parameters. The use of this parameterization allows one to fit models using the leapfrog hybrid Monte Carlo method, and to bypass latent variable data augmentation and the slow convergence of the cutpoints which it usually entails. The proposed Gibbs sampler is not model specific and can be easily modified to handle different link functions. The approach is illustrated by considering data from a pediatric radiology study.

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