When modeling, for example, random intercepts in a regression, I follow the standard of indexing a vector the length of the number of groups in the variable: data { int<lower = 0> N; int<lower = 0> N_grps; int<lower = 1, upper = N_grps> grp [N]; } parameters { vector [N_grps] mu_grp; } S…

Computational cost of unused parameters?

mike-lawrence October 16, 2020, 12:23pm 3

Note that a related thread is here, though you’ve asked the question more succinctly!

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