Educational_Attainment
                        The data consists of information on educational
                        attainment and other variables for 3,923
                        individuals and is taken from the National
                        Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY, 1979)
                        survey.
Policy_Opinion          The data consists of public opinion on raising
                        federal income taxes on the rich and a host of
                        other variables for 1,164 individuals and is
                        taken from the 2010-2012 American National
                        Election Studies (ANES) on the Evaluation of
                        Government and Society Study I (EGSS 1)
alcdf                   Asymmetric Laplace distribution
alcdfstd                CDF of standard asymmetric Laplace distribution
bqror                   Bayesian quantile regression for ordinal models
covariateEffect_or1     Covariate effect for Bayesian quantile
                        regression for ordinal quantile model with more
                        than 3 outcomes
covariateEffect_or2     Covariate effect for Bayesian quantile
                        regression for ordinal quantile model with 3
                        outcomes
data25j3                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 3 outcomes and
                        p = 0.25 (i.e., 25th quantile)
data25j4                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 4 outcomes and
                        p = 0.25 (i.e., 25th quantile)
data50j3                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 3 outcomes and
                        p = 0.5 (i.e., 50th quantile)
data50j4                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 4 outcomes and
                        p = 0.5 (i.e., 50th quantile)
data75j3                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 3 outcomes and
                        p = 0.75 (i.e., 75th quantile)
data75j4                Data containing 500 observations generated from
                        the quantile ordinal model with 4 outcomes and
                        p = 0.75 (i.e., 75th quantile)
deviance_or1            Deviance Information Criteria for ordinal
                        quantile model with more than 3 outcomes
deviance_or2            Deviance Information Criteria for ordinal
                        quantile model with 3 outcomes
drawbeta_or1            Samples beta for ordinal quantile model with
                        more than 3 outcomes
drawbeta_or2            Samples beta for ordinal quantile model with 3
                        outcomes
drawdelta_or1           Samples delta for ordinal quantile model with
                        more than 3 outcomes
drawlatent_or1          Samples the latent variable z for ordinal
                        quantile model with more than 3 outcomes
drawlatent_or2          Samples the latent variable z for ordinal
                        quantile model with 3 outcomes
drawnu_or2              Samples the scale factor nu for ordinal
                        quantile model with 3 outcomes
drawsigma_or2           Samples the sigma for ordinal quantile model
                        with 3 outcomes
draww_or1               Samples the latent weight w for ordinal
                        quantile model with more than 3 outcomes
infactor_or1            Inefficiency factor for ordinal quantile model
                        with more than 3 outcomes
infactor_or2            Inefficiency factor for ordinal quantile model
                        with 3 outcomes
logMargLikelihood_or1   Marginal likelihood for ordinal quantile model
                        with more than 3 outcomes
logMargLikelihood_or2   Marginal likelihood for ordinal quantile model
                        with 3 outcomes
qrminfundtheorem        Minimize the negative of log-likelihood
qrnegLogLike_or2        Negative log-likelihood for ordinal quantile
                        model with 3 outcomes
qrnegLogLikensum_or1    Negative log-likelihood for ordinal quantile
                        model with more than 3 outcomes
quantreg_or1            Bayesian quantile regression for ordinal
                        quantile model with more than 3 outcomes
quantreg_or2            Bayesian quantile regression for ordinal
                        quantile model with 3 outcomes
rndald                  Generates random numbers from an asymmetric
                        Laplace distribution
traceplot_or1           Trace plots for ordinal quantile model with
                        more than 3 outcomes
traceplot_or2           Trace plots for ordinal quantile model with 3
                        outcomes
