Table 9.

MLEs for the Midtown Manhattan Mental study data, assuming an ordinalized bivariate normal model

Parameter	Estimate	St. error
$\tau$	0.10762	0.01718***
${\theta }_1$	$-$1.00344	0.03702***
${\theta }_2$	$-$0.51024	0.03219***
${\theta }_3$	$-$0.05579	0.03074
${\theta }_4$	0.55185	0.03253***
${\theta }_5$	1.12411	0.03900***
${\eta }_1$	$-$0.89627	0.03573***
${\eta }_2$	0.11931	0.03080***
${\eta }_3$	0.72393	0.03386***

Signif. codes: 0 ’***’ 0.001 ’**’ 0.01 ’*’ 0.05 ’.’ 0.1 ’ ’ 1 (maximized value of the log-likelihood function: $-5171.345$). The results are obtained by using the package maxLik