Stan (software)
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Maintainer | Stan Development Team |
Publishing year | 2012 |
Current version | 2.19 (April 18, 2019) |
operating system | Unixoide , Mac OS , Microsoft Windows |
programming language | C ++ |
category | Statistics software |
License | 3-clause BSD license |
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Stan is a software which is used for questions of Bayesian statistics with the help of the Monte Carlo simulation .
Stan was developed at Columbia University based on the BUGS project and with a similar syntax. The name of the software was chosen in honor of the mathematician Stanisław Marcin Ulam , a pioneer in research on Monte Carlo simulation. Stan can be used via the command line as well as with the help of integrations in R , Python , MATLAB , Julia and Stata . Stan converts a model description to C ++ and compiles it into an executable file. This can be done together with data.
See also
literature
- John K. Kruschke: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis . A tutorial with R, JAGS and Stan . 2nd Edition. Academic Press, Waltham 2014, ISBN 978-0-12-405888-0 .