Hi there, Very noob question here: What’s the recommendation for sampling from priors? manually do it outside of pystan? [that’s what I’ve done so far] use generated quantities in the model code? somehow there’s a function call in pystan I’ve missed? Otherwise, it’s working great. Thank you! …

PyStan: how to sample priors?

davidgibbs April 28, 2021, 8:06pm 2

Oh, I’ll attempt to answer my own question.
I just saw this in the rstan side…
This post: Prior predictive checks: general implementation and truncated parameters

-dave

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