Stan Reference Manual
Overview
Language
1 Character Encoding
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
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

1 Character Encoding