The deadline for submissions to StanCon 2018 is approaching fast! Submissions should be sent by September 16, 2017 5:00:00 AM GMT. StanCon’s version of conference proceedings is a collection of contributed talks based on interactive, self-contained notebooks (e.g., knitr, R Markdown, Jupyter, etc.). For example, you might demonstrate a novel modeling technique, or (possibly simplified […] The post StanCon Submissions Reminder appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social…
This Friday afternoon I (Jonah) will be speaking about Stan at Washington University in St. Louis. The talk is open to the public, so anyone in the St. Louis area who is interested in Stan is welcome to attend. Here are the details: Title: Stan: A Software Ecosystem for Modern Bayesian Inference Jonah Sol Gabry, […] The post Stan in St. Louis this Friday appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal…
Over on the Stan users mailing list I (Jonah) recently posted about our new document providing guidelines for developing R packages interfacing with Stan. As I say in the post and guidelines, we (the Stan team) are excited to see the emergence of some very cool packages developed by our users. One of these packages […] The post R packages interfacing with Stan: brms appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal…
As we announced here a few weeks ago, the first Stan conference will be Saturday, January 21, 2017 at Columbia University in New York. We are now accepting both conference registrations and submissions. Full details are available at StanCon page on the Stan website. If you have any questions please let us know and we […] The post StanCon: now accepting registrations and submissions appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal…
For those of you not familiar with ShinyStan, it is a graphical user interface for exploring Stan models (and more generally MCMC output from any software). For context, here’s the post on this blog first introducing ShinyStan (formerly shinyStan) from earlier this year. ShinyStan v2.0.0 released ShinyStan v2.0.0 is now available on CRAN. This is […] The post ShinyStan v2.0.0 appeared first on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.
