CmdStan User's Guide
Introduction
QuickStart Guide
1 CmdStan Installation
2 Example Model and Data
3 Compiling a Stan Program
4 MCMC Sampling
5 Optimization
6 Variational Inference
7 Generating Quantities of Interest from a Fitted Model
Reference Manual
8 Command-Line Interface Overview
9 MCMC Sampling using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
10 Maximum Likelihood Estimation
11 Variational Inference Algorithm: ADVI
12 Standalone Generate Quantities
13 Diagnosing HMC by Comparison of Gradients
14 Parallelization
CmdStan Tools
15 stanc: Translating Stan to C++
16 stansummary: MCMC Output Analysis
17 diagnose: Diagnosing Biased Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Inferences
18 print (deprecated): MCMC Output Analysis
Appendices
19 Stan CSV File Format
20 JSON Format for CmdStan
21 RDump Format for CmdStan
Bibliography

CmdStan User’s Guide

This is an old version, view current version.

QuickStart Guide

This section is designed to help users install CmdStan and get acquainted with the CmdStan interface.