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#### Summary: When building docs we create a branch in the form `docs-2-29` to create a pull request. If that branch is not deleted and the job is run again,...

rok-cesnovar

PR https://github.com/stan-dev/stanc3/pull/955 added a new optimization that detects opportunities to use SoA matrices also known as varmat. This should be mentioned in the optimization docs under O=1 at a minimum....

rok-cesnovar

#### Summary: The Stan user's guide section on reparameterization should include an example of the use of the offset-multiplier construct. https://mc-stan.org/docs/stan-users-guide/reparameterization.html#hierarchical-models-and-the-non-centered-parameterization #### Description: The affine transform is described in the...

mitzimorris

Better document profile functionality

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#### Summary: The use and syntax of profile blocks is under-documented. A section in the users guide would be great, especially addressing: - profiling overhead, if any - Are profiling...

WardBrian

[FR] Adding Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model Examples

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#### Summary: I'd like to add examples of GPLVMs to the docs. A classical GPLVM (as described in Lawrence, N. D. 2003, Gaussian process latent variable models for visualisation of...

InfProbSciX

#### Summary: submitted via Discourse: https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstan-manual-mac-installation/25703 #### Current Version: v2.28.0

mitzimorris

[FR] Distribution plots in the manual

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#### Summary: Like how wiki has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbel_distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbel_distribution) it may be nice to have a picture for each distribution with different parameters in the function docs #### Additional Information: Since most...

SteveBronder

[FR] output which functions/distributions have derivatives

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I'm loving the provenance in the new documentation. One thing I think that would be helpful is to know which functions have derivatives and which rely on autodiff. It helps...

spinkney

Clarify that Stan uses non-standard/improved NUTS

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#### Summary: While the documentation *does* explicitly say that Stan uses a non-standard/improved version of NUTS, this fact is easy to miss. It would be nice if it were more...

bbolker

exp_mod_normal parameter lambda is inverse scale, not shape

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#### Summary: In the current Stan Function Reference manual Version 2.28. For the Exponentially modified normal distribution, the parameter lambda is described as being the shape, I think it is...

andrewdolman