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Options for SMC samplers

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Allow a variety of options in SMC (potentially population MCMC too): - Any sort of MCMC kernel (for example, adaptive MCMC, HMC) can be used, - A range of possible...

Main paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2380 Python package: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03757

Turn off "Compiling additional model methods..." message when calling `init_model_methods`

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** I am creating a package that repeatedly calls `init_model_methods` (each time I use a different dataset with my Stan model)...

Setting `compile_model_methods=TRUE` causes a staged installation to fail

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**Describe the bug** I am using a staged installation in an R package I am developing (using the machinery of `instantiate`). When I use `cmdstanr::cmdstan_model` without the additional argument `compile_model_methods=TRUE`,...

This is already implemented for Julia.

Also, look at wikipedia for other common properties that are nice to haves...

To do list

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- [ ] Check implementation of all means and variances by comparing outputs with their known values. - [x] Check that slider values are sensible. For example, all sliders that...

Distributions to add

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Univariate continuous: - [ ] Ordered logistic - [ ] Skew normal - [ ] Exponentially-modified normal distribution - [ ] Double exponential - [ ] Logistic - [ ]...