Brian Ward

`fit_intercept=False` is a feature in some of the other scikit-learn estimators. The recommended usage is not to actually not fit an intercept, but rather for instances where your design matrix...

I think the convention is that the column of 1s comes first. When talking to @jgabry he mentioned that RStanArm checks for this and removes that first column, preferring to...

Moved existing work to https://github.com/WardBrian/scikit-stan/tree/feature/15-betareg

The message here is probably a bit misleading, because it doesn't just look for a BridgeStan, it looks for a BridgeStan instance _of the matching version_ if $BRIDGESTAN is not...

We have an intentionally different behavior than cmdstan, where the `get_bridgestan_path()` function always returns a path, downloading it if necessary. This is in part because a given version of bridgestan...

Oh, that's just because I forgot to update the docs after the downloading feature was ported to R in #172. Here's what we say in Python, which is now true...

@avehtari I've opened a PR with doc changes -- are you also hoping for any behavior changes, or is just properly explaining the behavior enough to close this?

@avehtari would changing the definition of `get_bridgestan_path()` to accept a `download` argument (default `TRUE`) line up with what you were expecting?

I agree it would be nice if this code could be easier to use outside cmdstanr. That said, I'm not sure BridgeStan is the right place for it, either. Recently...

I think all of these would require upstream changes in the Stan library and stanc compiler. Are all of those quantities well defined for a generic Stan model? The gradient...