v.2.19.0 (20 March 2019)
Stan now comes with GPU support for certain functions; see the Math library
release notes for more details: https://github.com/stan-dev/math/releases/tag/v2.19.0
The manual is now online in HTML format!
New Features
- #2618 - Add a new Variational Inference diagnostic
- #2627 - 1d integrator
- #2725 - standalone generated quantities
- #2717, #2669 - offset/multiplier transformations for easier non-centering, etc
- #2652 - Allow CSV reader to read max_depth from CmdStan CSV file
- #2620 - expose beta_proportion distribution, cdf, rng functions
- #2635 - allow paths to be passed to stanc
- #2441 - Add specialized functions for GLMs
- #2358 - enchanced include syntax
- #2575 - Analysis API for computing effective sample size
- #2467 - expose bernoulli logit rng
Bug Fixes
- #2730 - make read_stan_csv more robust; affects CmdStan.
- #2714 - fix bug in generated code for strange constraint expressions
- #2704 - fix json nan and inf handling
- #2677 - fix copying for compound assignments
- #2672 - fix sampling from multivariate normal specified by precision matrix
- #2643 - fix segfault in optimizing an exponential model
- #2636 - fix return of generated quantities when client only asked for params
- #2614 - fix "unknown variable" messages for function calls on LHS
- #2609 - use the word "info" instead of "warning" for many messages
Documentation
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