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Python interface to CmdStan

Project description

CmdStanPy

CmdStanPy is a lightweight interface to Stan for Python users which provides the necessary objects and functions to compile a Stan program and run Stan's samplers.

Goals

  • Clean interface to Stan services so that CmdStanPy can keep up with Stan releases.

  • Provides complete control - all sampler arguments have corresponding named argument for CmdStanPy sampler function.

  • Easy to install,

    • minimal Python library dependencies: numpy, pandas
    • Python code doesn't interface directly with c++, only calls compiled executables
  • Modular - CmdStanPy produces a sample from the posterior, downstream modules do the analysis.

Source Repository

CmdStan's source-code repository is hosted here on GitHub.

Licensing

The CmdStanPy, CmdStan, and the core Stan C++ code are licensed under new BSD.

Example

::

import os
from cmdstanpy import Model, StanFit, cmdstan_path

# specify Stan file, create, compile Model object
bernoulli_path = os.path.join(cmdstan_path(), 'examples', 'bernoulli', 'bernoulli.stan')
bernoulli_model = Model(stan_file=bernoulli_path)
bernoulli_model.compile()


# specify data, fit the model
bernoulli_data = { "N" : 10, "y" : [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1] }
bernoulli_fit = bernoulli_model.sample(chains=5, cores=3, data=bernoulli_data)

# summarize the results (wraps CmdStan `bin/stansummary`):
bernoulli_fit.summary()

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