Modeling uncertainty with the truncated zeta distribution in mixture models for ordinal responses

Dayang Dai and Dabuxilatu Wang

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2025, vol. 54, issue 13, 3976-4000

Abstract: In recent three decades, there has been a rapid increasing interest in the mixture models for ordinal responses, and the classical CUB model as a fundamental one has been extended to different preference and uncertainty models. In this article, based on a response style supported by Zipf’s law, we propose a novel mixture model for ordinal responses via replacing the uncertainty component of the CUB model with a truncated Zeta distribution. Parameters estimation with EM algorithm, inferential issues with respect to the approximation of a truncated Riemann Zeta function and estimators’ variance-covariance information matrix are investigated. The advantages of the proposed model over the CUB model have been illustrated with simulations of two sets of Monte Carlo experiments and practical applications of a health survey and a bicycle use. The intention of the article is to distinguish the respondents’ true preference from the response style of “the higher, the less”, so as to understand more reasonably the formation causes of ordinal responses.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2024.2409373

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