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In all models discussed thus far in this volume, it has been assumed that the random person weights θ p follow a normal distribution with mean 0 and covariance matrix Σ:
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Fieuws, S., Spiessens, B., Draney, K. (2004). Mixture Models. In: De Boeck, P., Wilson, M. (eds) Explanatory Item Response Models. Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3990-9_11
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