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 * Multivariate Student-t.
 
 ## Literature and implementations
-The methods used in this package is based on the major literature on the Bayesian estimation 
+The methods used in this package are based on the major literature on the Bayesian estimation 
 of finite mixture distributions, namely 
 
 *Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia (2006), "Finite Mixture and Markov Switching Models",