Stan Reference Manual
Overview
Language
1 Character Encoding
- 1.1 Content Characters
  - Compatibility with Latin-1 and UTF-8
- 1.2 Comment Characters
2 Includes
3 Comments
- 3.1 Line-Based Comments
- 3.2 Bracketed Comments
4 Whitespace
5 Data Types and Declarations
6 Expressions
7 Statements
8 Program Blocks
9 User-Defined Functions
10 Constraint Transforms
11 Language Syntax
- 11.1 BNF Grammars
- 11.2 Extra-Grammatical Constraints
12 Program Execution
13 Deprecated Features
14 Removed Features
- 14.1 lp__ Variable
Algorithms
15 MCMC Sampling
16 Posterior Analysis
17 Optimization
18 Variational Inference
- 18.1 Stochastic Gradient Ascent
19 Diagnostic Mode
Usage
20 Reproducibility
21 Licenses and Dependencies
References

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3 Comments

Stan supports C++-style line-based and bracketed comments. Comments may be used anywhere whitespace is allowed in a Stan program.