Semiparametric Methods for the Measurement of Latent Attitudes and the Estimation of Their Behavioural Consequences

摘要

We model attitudes as latent variables that induce stochastic dominance relationsin (item) responses. Observable characteristics that affect attitudes can be incorporatedinto the analysis to improve the measurement of the attitudes; the measurements areposterior distributions that condition on the responses and characteristics of each respondent.Methods to use these measurements to characterize the relation between attitudesand behaviour are developed and implemented.