This is the official reference manual for Stan’s programming language for coding probability models, inference algorithms for fitting models and making predictions, and posterior analysis …

“Stanislaw Ulam, namesake of Stan and co-inventor Monte Carlo methods shown here holding the Fermiac, Enrico Fermi’s physical Monte Carlo simulator for neutron diffusion.” (image from …

There are three interfaces for Stan that are supported as part of the Stan project. Models and their use are the same across the three interfaces, and this manual is the modeling language …

State Representative Stan Gunter represents the citizens of House District 8, which includes Rabun, Towns and Union counties and portions of White County. He was elected to the …

But what about the covariates we’ve ignored?

Although not part of the original Stan prototype, which used a unit mass matrix, Stan now allows a diagonal or dense mass matrix to be estimated during warmup. This allows adjustment for …

Given a specific model, blavaan automatically determines which simplifications are available and uses them for Stan estimation. The simplifications are implemented in Stan as a custom log …