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The Rasch Sampler

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  • Verhelst, Norman
  • Hatzinger, Reinhold
  • Mair, Patrick

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The Rasch sampler is an efficient algorithm to sample binary matrices with given marginal sums. It is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. The program can handle matrices of up to 1024 rows and 64 columns. A special option allows to sample square matrices with given marginals and fixed main diagonal, a problem prominent in social network analysis. In all cases the stationary distribution is uniform. The user has control on the serial dependency.

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  • Verhelst, Norman & Hatzinger, Reinhold & Mair, Patrick, 2007. "The Rasch Sampler," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 20(i04).
    • Handle: RePEc:jss:jstsof:v:020:i04
    DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10.18637/jss.v020.i04
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