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Stan
Stable release
Original author(s)	Stan Development Team
Initial release	August 30, 2012
Repository
Written in	C++
Operating system	Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Platform	Intel x86 - 32-bit, x64
Type	Statistical package
License	New BSD License
Website	mc-stan.org

Stan is a probabilistic programming language for statistical inference written in C++.^[1] The Stan language is used to specify a (Bayesian) statistical model with an imperative program calculating the log probability density function.^[1]

Stan is licensed under the New BSD License. Stan is named in honour of Stanislaw Ulam, pioneer of the Monte Carlo method.^[1]

Stan was created by a development team consisting of 34 members^[2] that includes Andrew Gelman, Bob Carpenter, Matt Hoffman, and Daniel Lee.

Interfaces[edit]

The Stan language itself can be accessed through several interfaces:

CmdStan - command-line executable for the shell
RStan - integration with the R software environment, maintained by Andrew Gelman and colleagues
PyStan - integration with the Python programming language
MatlabStan - integration with the MATLAB numerical computing environment
Stan.jl - integration with the Julia programming language
StataStan - integration with Stata

In addition, higher-level interfaces are provided with packages using Stan as backend, primarily in the R language:^[3]

rstanarm - provides a drop-in replacement for frequentist models provided by base R and lme4 using the R formula syntax
brms - provides a wide array of linear and nonlinear models using the R formula syntax ^[4]
blavaan - provides latent variable models, including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation models, and latent growth curve models
prophet - provides time series forecasting

Algorithms[edit]

Stan implements gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inference, stochastic, gradient-based variational Bayesian methods for approximate Bayesian inference, and gradient-based optimization for penalized maximum likelihood estimation.

MCMC algorithms:
- No-U-Turn sampler^[1]^[5] (NUTS), a variant of HMC and Stan's default MCMC engine
Variational inference algorithms:
- Black-box Variational Inference^[6]
Optimization algorithms:
- Limited-memory BFGS (Stan's default optimization algorithm)
- Laplace's method for classical standard error estimates and approximate Bayesian posteriors

Automatic differentiation[edit]

Stan implements reverse-mode automatic differentiation to calculate gradients of the model, which is required by HMC, NUTS, L-BFGS, BFGS, and variational inference.^[1] The automatic differentiation within Stan can be used outside of the probabilistic programming language.

Usage[edit]

Stan is used in fields including social science,^[7]pharmaceutical statistics,^[8]market research,^[9] and medical imaging.^[10]

References[edit]

^ ^a^b^c^d^eStan Development Team. 2015. Stan Modeling Language User's Guide and Reference Manual, Version 2.9.0
^'Development Team'. stan-dev.github.io. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
^Gabry, Jonah. 'The current state of the Stan ecosystem in R'. Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Retrieved 25 August 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/brms/index.html
^Hoffman, Matthew D.; Gelman, Andrew (April 2014). 'The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo'. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 15: pp. 1593–1623.
^Kucukelbir, Alp; Ranganath, Rajesh; Blei, David M. (June 2015). 'Automatic Variational Inference in Stan'. 1506 (3431). arXiv:1506.03431. Bibcode:2015arXiv150603431K.Cite journal requires journal= (help)
^Goodrich, Benjamin King, Wawro, Gregory and Katznelson, Ira, Designing Quantitative Historical Social Inquiry: An Introduction to Stan (2012). APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN2105531
^Natanegara, Fanni; Neuenschwander, Beat; Seaman, John W.; Kinnersley, Nelson; Heilmann, Cory R.; Ohlssen, David; Rochester, George (2013). 'The current state of Bayesian methods in medical product development: survey results and recommendations from the DIA Bayesian Scientific Working Group'. Pharmaceutical Statistics. 13 (1): 3–12. doi:10.1002/pst.1595. ISSN1539-1612. PMID24027093.
^Feit, Elea. 'Using Stan to Estimate Hierarchical Bayes Models'. Retrieved 19 March 2019.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
^Gordon, GSD; Joseph, J; Alcolea, MP; Sawyer, T; Macfaden, AJ; Williams, C; Fitzpatrick, CRM; Jones, PH; di Pietro, M; Fitzgerald, RC; Wilkinson, TD; Bohndiek, SE (2018). 'Quantitative phase and polarisation endoscopy applied to detection of early oesophageal tumourigenesis'. arXiv:1811.03977 [physics.med-ph].

External links[edit]

Stan source, a Git repository hosted on GitHub

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The Stan Math Library: Reverse-Mode Automatic Differentiation in C++

Abstract

As computational challenges in optimization and statistical inference grow ever harder, algorithms that utilize derivatives are becoming increasingly more important. The implementation of the derivatives that make these algorithms so powerful, however, is a substantial user burden and the practicality of these algorithms depends critically on tools like automatic differentiation that remove the implementation burden entirely. The Stan Math Library is a C++, reverse-mode automatic differentiation library designed to be usable, extensive and extensible, efficient, scalable, stable, portable, and redistributable in order to facilitate the construction and utilization of such algorithms. Usability is achieved through a simple direct interface and a cleanly abstracted functional interface. The extensive built-in library includes functions for matrix operations, linear algebra, differential equation solving, and most common probability functions. Extensibility derives from a straightforward object-oriented framework for expressions, allowing users to easily create custom functions. Efficiency is achieved through a combination of custom memory management, subexpression caching, traits-based metaprogramming, and expression templates. Partial derivatives for compound functions are evaluated lazily for improved scalability. Stability is achieved by taking care with arithmetic precision in algebraic expressions and providing stable, compound functions where possible. For portability, the library is standards-compliant C++ (03) and has been tested for all major compilers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.