In many surveys, the data comprise a large number of categorical variables that suffer from item nonresponse. Standard methods for multiple imputation, like log-linear models or sequential regression imputation, can fail to capture complex dependencies and can be difficult to implement effectively in high dimensions. We present a fully Bayesian,…

The L statistic of E. B. Page (1963) tests the agreement of a single group of judges with an a priori ordering of alternative treatments. This paper extends the two group test of D. W. Leitner and C. M. Dayton (1976), an extension of the L test, to analyze difference in consensus between two unequally sized groups of judges. Exact critical values…

This study compared five density estimation techniques applied to samples from a population of 272,244 examinees' ACT English Usage and Mathematics Usage raw scores. Unsmoothed frequencies, kernel method, negative hypergeometric, four-parameter beta compound binomial, and Cureton-Tukey methods were applied to 500 replications of random samples of…