摘要: |
Multi-dimensional dependent outcome models are of interest in several fields, including land-use and transportation, biology, finance, and econometrics, just to name a few. The primary motivation for modeling dependent outcomes jointly is that there may be common underlying unobserved factors (attitudes, values, and lifestyle factors) of decision-makers that impact multiple dependent outcomes simultaneously. Even as there has been increasing emphasis on mixed data outcome modeling, there also has been a growing interest in accommodating spatial (and social) dependency effects among decision-makers in mixed data modeling. This is because spatial/social interactions can be exploited by decision-makers to achieve desired system end-states. In the current project, the use of important insight that the analyst can generate spatial dependence across multiple and mixed outcomes by specifying spatial dependence in the �soft� psychological construct (latent) variables underlying the many outcomes. |