Aki Vehtari

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Another error ``` > + > > Compiling Stan program... *** caught segfault *** address 0x7f6676099008, cause 'invalid permissions' Traceback: 1: dyn.load("/tmp/RtmpmAozHV/sourceCpp-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-1.0.12/sourcecpp_272bf5990ba0/sourceCpp_2.so") 2: eval(ei, envir) 3: eval(ei, envir) 4: withVisible(eval(ei,...

After rebuilding with threads I get ``` > + + > > Compiling Stan program... Linking precompiled model methods to model object file... Error in dyn.load(methods_dll, local = TRUE, now...

> I wasn't sure whether the multivariate t could be vectorised in Stan (as each sample is already a vector) Note that the type had to changed from matrix to...

> But I was thinking about whether 100 is a large enough sigma for a flexible noninformative normal prior on mu. What if someone comes with data in extremely large/small...

@nhuurre, excellent illustration!

Pinging @bob-carpenter who last week asked to point out doc issues he could work on in the near future

I now reviewed only the design. After it's fixed, I can review code, too.

> Do we print the laplace draws in the output file? If we do we have a csv with two different formats of outputs. The optimization output has less columns...

> maximum of the posterior density it's actually computing the maximum of a penalized likelihood function. Can you say this in terms of unconstrained and constrained space? We want the...

> The current code computes the mode on the constrained space, not the unconstrained space. Thanks Mike, now I remember we have discussed this same issue several times before! It...