Arguments
m
Number of ordinal categories
ordinal
Vector of ordinal responses
Y
Matrix of covariates for explaining the uncertainty component
W
Matrix of covariates for explaining the feeling component
Z
Matrix of covariates for explaining the overdispersion component
bet
Vector of parameters for the uncertainty component, with length equal to
NCOL(Y) + 1 to account for an intercept term (first entry of bet)
gama
Vector of parameters for the feeling component, with length equal to
NCOL(W) + 1 to account for an intercept term (first entry of gama)
alpha
Vector of parameters for the overdispersion component, with length equal to
NCOL(Z) + 1 to account for an intercept term (first entry of alpha)