This note argues that a Bayesian framework is almost inescapable when specifying statistical models of the LISREL type, i.e. models involving not only latent and manifest variables but also incidental parameters. Indeed, a careful specification, making every hypothesis explicit and interpretable...

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian analysis of a semi-parametric binary choice model. The prior specification of the functional parameter, namely the distribution function of a latent variable, is of the Dirichlet process type and the prior specification of the Euclidean parameter, namely the...