Bob Carpenter

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icon company Flatiron Institute icon location New York icon location I work in computational and applied statistics, largely on the Stan probabilistic programming language, autodiff library, and Bayesian inference algorithms.

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define game-terms to separate from formatting

I pulled all leading and trailing punctuation and spaces out of the spans already. For example, I replaced `foo: ` with `foo: `. These uses are mainly in headers, where...

replace page number references and anchor links (with markdown links?)

I don't think page numbers make sense for an online document. I was suggesting in the issue replacing them with anchors and links.

Entropy code

Thanks! I'll fix it.

Add .travis.yml for deploying to Github Pages

Thanks so much! When I'm ready to put up a published version (probably in a couple weeks when I've at least copyedited it properly), I'll use it.

Request: Add prebuilt versions to github releases

RStudio has everything preinstalled, I think. If someone could create a PR to add a shell script or makefile that'll build an HTML version in the right way to launch...

section 4.6 - Analyzing the diagnostic example - typo - 0.85 should be 0.95

Thanks---I need to get back to this and fix it.

Add rstan::extract()-like feature to fit$draws()

Is there a way currently to get a structured output in Stan that's not a vector? For example, if I have a parameter declared as ```stan matrix[3, 2] A; ```...

Error when running MCMC with CmdStanR

I've seen that error myself and it's definitely a bug. But now I'm confused about whether it's coming from RStan or CmdStanR. The title says "RStan", but the example has...

Expose `log_prob` and `grad_log_prob` methods

There's no way to do this efficiently through CmdStan because data has to be loaded each time. So @roualdes, @WardBrian and I put together the BridgeStan package: https://github.com/roualdes/bridgestan This is...

Expose `log_prob` and `grad_log_prob` methods

> need log probabilities on the order of a few dozen calls I think it was, which is probably fine to use something like this for. If an application doesn't...