Bob Carpenter

> you can modify n inside the loop Maybe it's too late, but I don't think we should allow that. If you want to do that you can build it...

@bnicenboim That looks very interesting at a quick glance. They want a link; if they also want a copy, it's no problem given that we require them to be open-source...

I started a discourse thread here: http://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/how-to-cite-case-studies-dois/2221 The suggestion came up from Diogo Melo to use zenodo, which we should check out.

It's a tradeoff between being natural for the user of Stata vs. easy to support. I'm OK either way and agree it would be nice to get all the Stan...

Isn't there sub slicing when we peel off `_lpdf` suffixes in sampling statements?

Let me bring it up on stan-dev. - Bob > On Mar 4, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Jonah Gabry [email protected] wrote: > > Is the plan still to deprecate cov_matrix...

Yes, it's still desired. "cov_matrix" should be deprecated and replaced with "spd_matrix". "cholesky_factor_cov" should be deprecated and replaced with either just plain "cholesky_factor" or "cholesky_factor_spd" (the latter clarifies it's full...

I also agree. My original intention was to allow `target +=` in the transformed parameter block because I thought that'd be the natural place to drop Jacobians. Ideally, this should...

Sure, I can update the reference manual. I'm not sure I want to start changing programs in the user's guide, but I'll check where we talk about blocks there, too.

I opened https://github.com/stan-dev/docs/issues/413 for this.