rameter</p></dd>

<dt>regular_w</dt>
<dd><p>Vector for weighting the regularization penalty</p></dd>

<dt>regular_n</dt>
<dd><p>Vector of regularization factor. This will be
typically the sample size.</p></dd>

  <dt>maxiter</dt>
<dd><p>Maximum number of iterations</p></dd>

  <dt>conv</dt>
<dd><p>Convergence criterion for item parameters and
distribution parameters</p></dd>

  <dt>globconv</dt>
<dd><p>Global deviance convergence criterion</p></dd>

<dt>msteps</dt>
<dd><p>Maximum number of M steps in estima