Looking for a stan program critique

[jonah]

In case it’s of interest, here’s a thread that has some other views on related topics:

Standardizing predictors and outputs in a hierarchical model

Hello everyone, First of all thanks for the StanCon—it was a great experience. Here is a question that I have been discussing there and many suggested that I post it on the Forum. My question is about Manual Section 28.11 Standardizing Predictors and Outputs (v. 2.17.0), where it is suggested that we standardize our inputs as part of optimization. The model written is a very simple one predictor population variable model of y_{n} = alpha + beta * x_{n} + epsilon_{n}. I was wondering how to ba…