Understanding sampling of parameters / local or model block variables

[bgoodri]

@davidmanheim

Is there any way to tell the model to sample a parameter, but not include it in the model that is output?

In RStan, yes. You can call stan with pars = "Calc_Angle", include = FALSE. The draws won’t be included in the output, although you can still get the posterior means. We need to do this for Stan generally.