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		Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Item Response Models
		// Self-contained marginal maximum likelihood (MML) estimation
		for unidimensional and multidimensional item response models,
		including the Rasch / one-parameter logistic, partial credit,
		rating scale, two-parameter logistic and generalised partial
		credit models, with latent regression, multiple groups and case
		weights. A parallelised, dimension-factorised streaming
		estimation engine supports large between-item (simple-
		structure) multidimensional models with bounded memory and an
		opt-in controlled-accuracy quadrature mode that reports a
		measured approximation error. A usability layer serves non-
		specialists and automated pipelines: one-stop estimation from
		common file formats ('Excel', delimited text, 'SPSS', 'Stata',
		'SAS') with automatic cleaning and answer-key scoring, pre-
		estimation data checks, classical item statistics and item fit,
		plain-language quality ratings, bilingual (English/Chinese)
		output, spreadsheet exports for item banking and cross-year
		linking, audience-specific 'Word'/'HTML' reports, and machine-
		readable results with structured error conditions. Methods
		follow Adams, Wilson and Wang (1997)
		doi:10.1177/0146621697211001.
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