Fitting a Latent Trait Model for Missing Observations to Racial Prejudice Data

This paper will show the use of a latent variable model for binary data which allows information on the latent variable to be extracted from the pattern of the missing data. We use a modified version of the logit-probit model for binary data (Bartholomew, 1987) proposed by Knott, Albanese and Galbraith (1990). The model will be applied to data on racia