Ordinal regression and classification methods form a vital branch of statistical learning wherein the outcome variable possesses an inherent order. Unlike conventional classification problems, where ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a simple technique he has used with good success, previously unpublished and without a standard name. The goal of an ordinal classification problem ...

“Inscriptions” are a way of writing pieces of arbitrary information onto the Bitcoin blockchain. “Ordinals” are a convention used for tracking individual sats and linking them to inscriptions. This ...

Existing methods for the analysis of clustered, ordinal data are inappropriate for certain applications. We propose latent variable models for clustered ordinal data which are derived as natural ...

This paper presents a smooth regression model for ordinal data with longitudinal dependence structure. A marginal model with cumulative logit link is applied to cope with the ordinal scale and the ...

Bitcoin Ordinals are a protocol introduced by Casey Rodarmor in January 2023, which enables data to be inscribed on Bitcoin’s blockchain by embedding content in transaction witnesses. This technology ...