Hi all!
Could I please ask for some feedback on the SBC Stanconnect plan? Based on the idea that SBC itself could be calibrated through a simulation-based calibration process, I have drafted three separate discourse posts here with the following summary. I hope to use the well-established stan community to generate reliable posterior on SBC which we can fit together during the session.
Going to second @PhilClemson in giving kudos on the idea.
We want to use SBC to validate phylogenetic samplers, which are quite complicated and niche. These are chains that take a long time to run.
We have started with a JAVA implementation of the heavy-lifting bits. I wonder if we should just perfect that and leave the plotting and analysis to some R implementation.