Stan is back!
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Abstract:
Stan (mc-stan.org (http://mc-stan.org/)) turns 3 this month. I'll give a brief overview of the language and software, some of our history, and what's on the horizon.
Stan is a statistical modeling language and a collection of inference algorithms written in C++. There are interfaces to many popular computing frameworks including the command line, R, Python, Julia, Matlab, and Stata.
The Stan team:
Andrew Gelman, Bob Carpenter, Matt Hoffman, Daniel Lee, Ben Goodrich, Michael Betancourt, Marcus Brubaker, Jiqiang Guo, Peter Li, Allen Riddell, Marco Inacio, Jeffrey Arnold, Rob Trangucci, Rob Goedman, Brian Lau, Jonah Sol Gabry, Alp Kucukelbir, Robert L. Grant, Dustin Tran
(Also note - there is now a Stan Meetup locally! https://www.meetup.com/Stan-Users-NYC )
Speaker Bio:
Daniel Lee is a statistical researcher at Columbia University. He's worked with Andrew Gelman for the past 6 years on a number of applied projects and Stan. He has a BS (Math with CS) from MIT and a CASM (Part III, stats) from Cambridge.
Stan is back!