Introduction to Stan for Markov Chain Monte Carlo

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. Course was given at the U.S. Census Bureau on April 25, 2017.

Academic year: 
Apr-2017
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Number of students: 
40