%0 Report %D 2017 %T Presentation: Introduction to Stan for Markov Chain Monte Carlo %A Simpson, Matthew %X Presentation: Introduction to Stan for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simpson, Matthew An introduction to Stan (http://mc-stan.org/): a probabilistic programming language that implements Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC), variational Bayes, and (penalized) maximum likelihood estimation. Presentation given at the U.S. Census Bureau on April 25, 2017. %I University of Missouri %G eng %U http://hdl.handle.net/1813/52656 %9 Preprint