MARCH - RStan: Practical Bayesian Inference Made Easy (Bob Carpenter)

We look forward to seeing you at March 2015 meeting. Arrive from 5:45pm for a 6pm talk. Meetings are now held on Wednesday due to a new, larger room.

Talk Outline: Special Guest, Bob Carpenter will present an application-focused introduction to RStan,the R interface to Stan ( http://mc-stan.org ). Stan is aflexible and expressive probabilistic programming languageproviding full Bayesian inference via MCMC and penalized maximum likelihood estimation via optimization.

BIO: Bob designed the Stan language at Columbia Uni and is oneof the core Stan developers. He used to be a professor

and production coder in industry.

Other details: Afterwards we will move on to a nearby pub for networking opportunities.