We are thrilled to announce that StanCon 2026 will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, from August 17th to August 21st, 2026.The conference brings together researchers and practitioners passionate about Bayesian inference and probabilistic programming in one of Sweden’s most historic and vibrant university cities. Attendees will enjoy a week of conference talks, workshops, and tutorials … Continue reading StanCon 2026, Uppsala, Sweden
Author: avehtari
From sampling statement to distribution statement
The sampling statement name for tilde (~) statements in Stan documentation has been replaced with distribution statement. The background is the tilde (~) statement does not do any sampling (but due to the sampling statement name, some people had wrongly assumed so, which caused confusion) in the literature, tilde (~) is usually read “is distributed … Continue reading From sampling statement to distribution statement
Options for improving Stan sampling speed
In this blog post, I (Aki) discuss different optimizations that can speed up Stan sampling. I approach this from the user viewpoint, and you can thank numerous (10+) Stan developers for many of the speed-ups mentioned below. The speed-ups have required hard work from developers working on Stan core C++/OCaml (big part of Stan is … Continue reading Options for improving Stan sampling speed
The Stan Blog 