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+IRTShiny: Item Response Theory with Shiny
+========
+
+The goal of this project is to help students and researchers run Item Response Theory analysis.
+
+List of Packages Used 
+```
+library(shiny) 
+library(shinyAce) 
+library(psych) 
+library(CTT) 
+library(ltm) 
+library(beeswarm)
+```
+### Acknowledgments and Authors
+
+#### Acknowledgments
+William Kyle Hamilton would like to thank the [Health Communications and Interventions Lab at UC Merced](http://cameronhcilab.com/) for their comments and beta testing efforts on this application. 
+
+Atsushi Mizumoto would like to thank [Dr. Luke Plonsky](http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/ldp3/) and [Dr. Yo In'nami](https://sites.google.com/site/yoinnami/) for their support and feedback to create this web application.
+
+
+#### Authors
+
+
+![alt text](http://kylehamilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kyle80.jpg "Logo Title Text 1") [William Kyle Hamilton - University of California, Merced](http://www.kylehamilton.com)
+
+William Kyle Hamilton maintains this application and has authored new features.
+
+![alt text](http://kylehamilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/atsushi80.jpg "Logo Title Text 1")
+[Atsushi Mizumoto, PhD - Kansai University](http://mizumot.com)
+
+Atsushi Mizumoto wrote the first version of this application; this application is a fork of the original which can be found [here](https://github.com/mizumot/IRT)