Review

New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences is a collection of up-to-date studies on modern categorical data analysis methods, emphasizing their application to relevant and interesting data sets. A prominent breakthrough in categorical data analysis are latent variable models. This volume concentrates on two classes of models -- latent class analysis and item response theory.
—Short Book Reviews

The book is certainly beneficial and easily accessible to researchers and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences.
—American Statistical Association