ABSTRACT
Chapters 1 and 2 investigated a response variable that had two possible category choices. Chapter 3 generalizes this to a setting where the response variable value is chosen from a fixed set of more than two category choices. For example, response options could be of the form:
1. Five-level Likert scale — Strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, or strongly agree,
2. Chemical compounds in drug discovery experiments — Positive, blocker, or neither,
3. Cereal shelf-placement in a grocery store — Bottom, middle, or top,
4. Canadian political party affiliation — Conservative, New Democratic, Liberal, Bloc Quebecois, or Green, and
5. Beef grades — Prime, choice, select, standard, utility, and commercial.
