daikonradish / 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 sampler

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.