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<li><p><strong>Ordinal</strong>: The ordinal methods require sampling thresholds. There are two approach included in <strong>BGGM</strong>. The customary approach described in @albert1993bayesian (the default) and the ‘Cowles’ algorithm described in @cowles1996accelerating.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Mixed</strong>: The mixed data (a combination of discrete and continuous) method was introduced in @hoff2007extending. This is a semi-parametric copula model (i.e., a copula GGM) based on the ranked likeli