CmdStan, RStan, PyStan v2.2.0

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The Stan Development Team is happy to announce CmdStan, RStan, and PyStan v2.2.0. As usual, more info is available on the

This is a minor release with a mix of bug fixes and features. For a full list of changes, please see the v2.2.0 milestone on stan-dev/stan’s issue tracker. Some of the bug fixes and issues are listed below.

Bug Fixes

  • increment_log_prob is now vectorized and compiles with vector arguments
  • multinomial random number generator used the wrong size for the return value
  • fixed memory leaks in auto-diff implementation
  • variables can start with the prefix ‘inf’
  • fixed parameter output order for arrays when using optimization
  • RStan compatibility issue with latest Rcpp 0.11.0

Features

  • suppress command line output with refresh <= 0
  • added 1 to treedepth to match usual definition of treedepth
  • added distance, squared_distance, diag_pre_multiply, diag_pre_multiply to Stan modeling lnaguage
  • added a ‘fixed_param’ sampler for use with the generated quantities block

For more information and download links, visit Stan’s webpage: http://mc-stan.org
 
— Stan Development Team

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