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Copyright (c) 2026 Miguel Ibañez-Berganza & Arianna Armanetti

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If you use this software, or any derivative of it, in academic work, you are
kindly requested to:

  1. cite the accompanying paper:

       Armanetti, A. et al.,
       "Generalized Ising models for ordinal questionnaire data"
       (in preparation, 2026).

  2. cite this software:

       Ibañez-Berganza, M. & Armanetti, A., "psyspin: Generalized Ising / Blume-Capel / Blume-Emery-Griffiths inference for ordinal questionnaires data," version 0.1.0,
       1.     https://github.com/armanetti/psyspin

  3. contact the author at arianna.armanetti@imtlucca.it to discuss usage,
     collaboration, or questions regarding the package or the paper.

These requests are made on top of the permissions granted by the MIT
License above; they do not modify or restrict those permissions.
