Expanding the Stan User’s Guide

This post is from Bob. The Stan User’s Guide has been evolving organically along with the project. I’m writing this post for two reasons—to let you know what we’ve added lately and to encourage you to add your own chapters. History Initialy there was just one doc that included what is now the Reference Manual, Function sReference and CmdStan Manual. You can browse them all on the web or download pdfs from the Stan documentation web site. Most of the topics grew up opportunistically from either things the team was interested in, new features we added to Stan, or just trying to cover the basics of the chapters of Bayesian Data Analysis and Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. Recent additions There have been some recent additions, including some from new faces: Franziska Henrich: drift-diffusion Wiener models for reaction-time modeling Abner Heredia Bustos: multiple imputation Brynjólfur Gauti Guðrúnar Jónsson: copulas Charles Margossian, Steve Bronder, Aki…