The fact that no-one has yet crossed daffodils and elephants (unless
they have...) could in principle mean that 
1. No one has thought of how to do it yet. 
2. It's not a good idea, so no one has tried. 
Nick 
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Richard Williams
At 10:27 AM 6/3/2009, Nick Cox wrote:
>Can you identify any literature that defines covariance for ordinal 
>(graded) responses? I don't usually align myself with "level of 
>measurement" arguments, but I would be surprised if the models you 
>think you want are even defined in the literature. I'd be happy for 
>anyone to expose my enormous ignorance on this detail.
I keep getting requests to write xtoglm and xtgologit2, but I have no 
idea how to do it.  The fact that xtologit does not exist makes me 
think it is a non-trivial problem.
The closest things I know of are the user-written routines -reoprob- 
and -regoprob-, both available from SSC.
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