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The possibility of obtaining locally optimal solutions with categorical data is pointed out for the original version of OSMOD development by Saito and Otsu. A revision of the initialization strategy in OSMOD is suggested, and its effectiveness in diminishing this possibility is demonstrated.
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Otsu, T., Saito, T. The Problem of local optimality with OSMOD. Psychometrika 55, 517–518 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294764
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