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Stan is fast

Posted by  on 30 August 2012, 10:02 pm

10,000 iterations for 4 chains on the (precompiled) efficiently-parameterized 8-schools model:

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A Stan is Born

Posted by  on 30 August 2012, 7:30 pm

Stan 1.0.0 and RStan 1.0.0 It’s official. The Stan Development Team is happy to announce the first stable versions of Stan and RStan. What is (R)Stan? Stan is an open-source package for obtaining Bayesian inference using the No-U-Turn sampler, a variant of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. It’s sort of like BUGS, but with a different language [...]

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