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<p>Another week, another bunch of Stan updates.</p>
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<li>Kevin Van Horn and Elea McDonnell Feit put together a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ksvanhorn/ART-Forum-2017-Stan-Tutorial" target="_blank">tutorial on Stan</a> [GitHub link] that covers linear regression, multinomial logistic regression, and hierarchical multinomial logistic regression.</li>
<li><b>Andrew</b> has been working on writing up our “workflow,” by which he means not only the three-step process of
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<li><b>Ben Goodrich</b> working on RStanArm with lots of new estimators, specifically following from nlmer, for GLMs with unusual inverse functions. This led to some careful evaluation, uncovering some multimodal behavior.
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<li><b>Breck Baldwin</b> has been pushing through governance discussions so we can start thinking about how to make decisions about the Stan project when not everyone agrees. I think we’re going to go more with a champion model than a veto model; stay tuned.
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<li><b>Mitzi Morris</b> has been getting a high-school intern up to speed for doing some model comparisons and testing.
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<li><b>Mitzi Morris</b> has implemented the Besag-York-Mollie likelihood with improved priors provided by Dan Simpson. You can check out the ongoing branch in the stan-dev/example-models repo.
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<li><b>Aki Vehtari</b> has been working on improving Pareto smoothed importance sampling and refining effective sample size estimators.
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<li><b>Imad Ali</b> has prototypes of the intrinsic conditional autoregressive models for RStanArm.
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<li><b>Charles Margossian</b> is working on gradients of steady-state ODE solvers for Torsten and a mixed solver for forcing functions in ODEs; papers are in the works, including a paper selected to be highlighted at ACoP.</li>
<li><b>Jonah Gabry</b> is working on a visualization paper with Andrew for submission and is gearing up for the Stan course later this summer. Debugging R packages.
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<li><b>Sebastian Weber</b> has been working on the low-level architecture for MPI including a prototype linked from the Wiki. The holdup is in shipping out the data to the workers. Anyone know MPI and want to get involved?
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<li><b>Jon Zelner</b> and <b>Andrew Gelman</b> have been looking at adding hierarchical structure to discrete-parameter models for phylogeny. These models are horribly intractable, so they’re trying to figure out what to do when you can’t marginalize and can’t sample (you can write these models in PyMC3 or BUGS, but you can’t explore the posterior). And when you can do some kind of pre-pruning (as is popular in natural language processing and speech recognition pipelines).
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<li><b>Matthew Kay</b> has a GitHub package <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/mjskay/tidybayes" target="_blank">TidyBayes</a> that aims to integrate data and sampler data munging in a TidyVerse style (wrapping the output of samplers like JAGS and Stan).
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<li><b>Quentin F. Gronau</b> has a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bridgesampling/index.html" target="_blank">Bridgesampling package on CRAN</a>, the short description of which is “Provides functions for estimating marginal likelihoods, Bayes factors, posterior model probabilities, and normalizing constants in general, via different versions of bridge sampling (Meng &amp; Wong, 1996)”. I heard about it when Ben Goodrich recommended it on the Stan forum.
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<li><b>Juho Piironen</b> and <b>Aki Vehtari</b> arXived their paper, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01694" target="_blank">Sparsity information and regularization in the horseshoe and other shrinkage priors</a>. Stan code included, naturally.</li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://andrewgelman.com/2017/07/14/stan-weekly-roundup-14-july-2017/" target="_blank">Stan Weekly Roundup, 14 July 2017</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://andrewgelman.com/" target="_blank">Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</a>.</p>
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