What we’re about
This is a meetup for people interested in Bayesian Statistics, Stan, and related technologies. We'll have talks, Q&A sessions, and workshops.
Stan (http://mc-stan.org) is a probabilistic programming language implementing full Bayesian statistical inference with
• MCMC sampling (NUTS, HMC)
and penalized maximum liklelihood estimation with
• Optimization (L-BFGS)
Stan is coded in C++ and runs on all major platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows).
Stan is freedom-respecting, open-source software (new BSD core, GPLv3 interfaces)
* The image "Relative Number of Births" is courtesy of Aki Vehtari. The model is explained in Section 21.2 of the third edition of the BDA book on page 505.
Past events
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