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 # particless Dynare module
 
 This package, used in [Dynare](http://www.dynare.org), provides
-nonlinear filtering algorithmss. The documentation is available in the
+nonlinear filtering algorithms. The documentation is available in the
 [doc](https://github.com/DynareTeam/particles/tree/master/doc)
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