We deal with two-way contingency tables having ordered column categories. We use a row effects model wherein each interaction term is assumed to have a multiplicative form involving a row effect parameter and a fixed column score. We propose a methodology to cluster row effects in order to...

Abstract Capture recapture methods using data on cases appearing on overlapping incomplete lists have been widely used for prevalence estimates. Nevertheless, workers have, in general, employed several different methods and there appears no consensus as to which is optimal.The authors, using...