Journal of Statistical Software

Authors:	Norman Verheist, Reinhold Hatzinger, Patrick Mair
Title:	[download] (801)The Rasch Sampler
Reference:	Vol. 20, Issue 4, Feb 2007 Submitted 2006-10-01, Accepted 2007-02-22
Type:	Article
Abstract:	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.
Paper:	[download] (801)The Rasch Sampler (application/pdf, 285.2 KB)
Supplements:	[download] (189)RaschSampler_0.8.0.tar.gz: R source package (application/x-gzip, 40.8 KB)
	[download] (183)v20i04.R: R example code from the paper (application/zip, 522 Bytes)
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