The paper presents historical development of the categorical data analysis for models with explicit response variables defined as well as models without such a distinction. Besides difficulties in model building we focus on methods and procedures for model testing and for the estimation of model...

Today, just as Europe is about to expand through the accession of new members such as Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and six other countries, it is clearer than ever that the Visegrad Four's mission has not come to an end but is gaining new dimensions. The Visegrad Group has fulfilled...