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
Algorithms
15 MCMC Sampling
16 Posterior Analysis
17 Optimization
18 Pathfinder
19 Variational Inference
- 19.1 Stochastic gradient ascent
20 Laplace Approximation
21 Diagnostic Mode
Usage
22 Reproducibility
23 Licenses and Dependencies
References

4 Whitespace