CmdStan Guide now online

yes!! I’ve fixed that in the Rmd, haven’t republished.

@mitzimorris Will the online CmdStanR guide eventually have a URL that links to the latest version rather than having to specify a particular version number? I was going to link to it from the CmdStanR doc but instead of the current link with a version number

we’d need something like

https://mc-stan.org/docs/cmdstan-guide/

to point to the latest version so that we don’t need to keep updating URLs everywhere we link to it. Does that make sense?

yes, will create the unversioned-redirects now.
just created the unversioned redirects - above link should work.

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Awesome, thanks Mitzi!

We rarely want to make inference for expectation (or quantiles) of lp__ so ESS or MCSE are not relevant in that sense, but Rhat and ESS for lp__ are additional diagnostics which may reveal reasons for inefficiencies in the mixing speed. There might something better, but I would report them at the moment.

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Reporting all stats for lp__. Also continuing to report these stats for all sampler params as well, because objections were raised (see GitHub issue), but added a blank line between sampler parameter summaries and model parameter summaries.

The new stansummary program has better command-line option handling, allows for your choice of quantiles to display, and the output is a little more readable - see description here: https://mc-stan.org/docs/cmdstan-guide/stansummary.html

Many thanks to everyone who’s contributed to this thread for making the docs so much better!

The 2_24 versions are up. If you want to link to these docs, use the unversioned URLs: https:mc-stan.org/docs/cmdstan-guide/...