Wordfish model (aka poisson ideal point model, poisson or multinomial IRT model): Fixing reflection invariance

I don’t know for sure, but it sure sounds reasonable to me.

I’m guessing you might not see this sorta thing a lot because in general you won’t know where the symmetries are in a multimodal posterior unless there is something special going on in your problem that you understand.

Sounds like you have something special going on that you understand? So cool beans! We take those

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