I’m trying to learn my way around the Stan source so I can try to contribute. I wanted to get a basic idea of which part of the source gets called and in what order, and which subroutines call each other. Is there a diagram that shows this? I couldn’t find anything on the Wiki. If not, I can always…

Overview of Program Flow when running Stan

sakrejda September 19, 2018, 6:27pm 2

The service methods are the place to start, that’s what they do.

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