Jacob B. Socolar

Results 16 issues of Jacob B. Socolar

#### Summary: In a non-centered normal distribution, if the standard deviation is initialized to a very low value, it crashes to an extremely low value and never recovers. Manual non-centering...

It would be nice if, in distributional regression, we could pass priors explicitly to the `"mu"` parameter via `dpar = "mu"`. This is just to help with the legibility of...

efficiency
priors

See https://github.com/stan-dev/posterior/issues/43 This is not ready for primetime, but I want the authors to be able to commit here if they want, so here it is. Now has: * A...

My first big test of multicore `summarise_draws` on a really big (~9 GB in memory) array plowed straight into the swap on my 40 GB machine and I had to...

documentation
efficiency

`ggmap::register_google(key = myKey)` gives: > Error in class(options) attempt to set an attribute on NULL ``` library(ggmap) register_google(key = myKey) ``` works as expected. > > sessionInfo() # After library(ggmap)...

Trying to plot a grid over the coterminous United States, and I'm getting plots that appear to be buggy: ```r library(dggridR) library(sf) library(ggplot2) dg6

Edited to simplify reproducible example. If I run the following code, the memory usage blows up (tens of GB), even though no objects are stored in the R environment. The...

I'd like to change `read_cmdstan_csv` so that I can avoid reading in warmup draws even if the model was fit with `save_warmup = T`. Proposed fix is to add a...

feature

I wrote the following function to predict the posterior probability of being in the zero-inflation state for the discrete zero-inflated families in `brms`. If of interest, I'll submit a PR...

feature

This is a draft PR to close https://github.com/paul-buerkner/brms/issues/1551. I'm opening the PR as a draft to get feedback on the overall design and implementation before I work on polishing. This...