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Richard J. Patz, Brian W. Junker, A Straightforward Approach to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Item Response Models, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 146-178
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