MCMC in educational research

Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 531-546

  Levy, Roy ^a   Mislevy, Robert J ^b   Behrens, John T ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

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