Religious participation, a trichotomous response in the form of a two-item
Guttman scale, is affected linearly by sex and by marital status, but the effect of
color is nonlinear Techniques illustrated in the paper allow the analy st to impose
simultaneously the two linear constraints and a nonlinear contrast of extreme
response categories versus the middle one to represent the color effect. Such
techniques should prove useful as analysts consider the possibilities of specifying
structural models for categorical data
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