Stan : A Probabilistic Programming Language
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Stan is a probabilistic programming language for specifying statistical models. A Stan program imperatively defines a log probability function over parameters conditioned on specified data and constants. As of version 2.14.0, Stan provides full Bayesian inference for continuous-variable models through Markov chain Monte Carlo methods such as the No-U-Turn sampler, an adaptive form of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling. Penalized maximum likelihood estimates are calculated using optimization methods such as the limited memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno algorithm. Stan is also a platform for computing log densities and their gradients and Hessians, which can be used in alternative algorithms such as variational Bayes, expectation propagation, and marginal inference using approximate integration. To this end, Stan is set up so that the densities, gradients, and Hessians, along with intermediate quantities of the algorithm such as acceptance probabilities, are easily accessible. Stan can be called from the command line using the cmdstan package, through R using the rstan package, and through Python using the pystan package. All three interfaces support sampling and optimization-based inference with diagnostics and posterior analysis. rstan and pystan also provide access to log probabilities, gradients, Hessians, parameter transforms, and specialized plotting.
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When dealing with more complex models beyond staple analyses such as t tests, there exist software packages that allow custom coding, such as JAGS or Stan.
“When dealing with more complex models that go beyond the staple analyses such as t tests, there exist a number of software packages that allow custom coding, such as JAGS (Plummer, 2003) or Stan (Carpenter et al., 2017).”
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DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning
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“This model is implemented in the domain-specific language for probabilistic models, STAN 16 , and it solves for the maximum-likelihood soup fraction with gradient descent.”
MethodRelativistic redshift of the star S0-2 orbiting the Galactic Center supermassive black hole
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Health-Status Outcomes with Invasive or Conservative Care in Coronary Disease
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The world’s user-generated road map is more than 80% complete
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“The model is estimated in a Bayesian framework using the open-source PyStan software [46].”
MethodMuff, S., Signer, J., & Fieberg, J. (2019) · Journal of Animal Ecology · doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13087 · Cited by 453 · see citing works
The world’s growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts
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“All regressions were undertaken through the brms package (Bürkner 2017) as an interface to the Bayesian inference engine Stan (Carpenter et al 2017).”
MethodFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring
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COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)
Cheng, C. I.-F., Barceló, J., Hartnett, A. S., Kubinec, R., & Messerschmidt, L. (2020) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0909-7 · Cited by 454 · see citing works
Global shifts in the phenological synchrony of species interactions over recent decades
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MethodInfluentialSelf-citationSpatiotemporal dynamics of molecular pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases
Mandel, I., Farr, W. M., & Gair, J. R. (2019) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1093/mnras/stz896 · Cited by 413 · see citing works
“Code and results implementing this model in the stan sampler (Carpenter et al. 2017) can be found at https://github.com/farr/SelectionExample.”
BackgroundCanopy mortality has doubled in Europe’s temperate forests over the last three decades
Senf, C., Dirk Pflugmacher, A., Yang, Z., Sebald, J., Knorn, J., Neumann, M., Hostert, P., & Seidl, R. (2018) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07539-6 · Cited by 384 · see citing works
Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions
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MethodA systematic review of Bayesian articles in psychology: The last 25 years.
van de Schoot, R., Winter, S. D., Ryan, O., Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, M. A. J., & Depaoli, S. A. (2017) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/met0000100 · Cited by 376 · see citing works
Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor
Islam, S. M. A., Díaz‐Gay, M., Wu, Y., Barnes, M. D., Vangara, R., Bergstrom, E. N., He, Y., Vella, M., Wang, J., Teague, J. W., et al. (2022) · Cell Genomics · doi:10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100179 · Cited by 350 · see citing works
“SigFit uses a previously developed nonnegative factorization method.(29) In contrast, EMu, SA, SigneR, and SigProfilerExtractor provide original implementations of their factorization algorithms (Table 1).”
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“Then we illustrate how we programmed our models using the Stan software package (Carpenter et al., 2016) and how we formulated hierarchical structures for various types of model parameters (see Performing Hierarchial Bayesian Analysis With Stan).”
MethodInfluentialEvent Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Akiyama, K., Alberdi, A., Alef, W., Algaba, J. C., Anantua, R., Asada, K., Azulay, R., Bach, U., Baczko, A.-K., et al. (2022) · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac6736 · Cited by 369 · see citing works
“…sampling scheme to explore the posterior space, employing a parallel tempering scheme (Syed et al. 2022) to ensure traversal over the entire prior volume and the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling kernel from the Stan package (Carpenter et al. 2017) to efficiently sample within each tempering level.”
MethodGenome-wide gene expression tuning reveals diverse vulnerabilities of M. tuberculosis
Bosch, B., DeJesus, M. A., Poulton, N. C., Zhang, W., Engelhart, C. A., Zaveri, A., Lavalette, S., Ruecker, N., Trujillo, C., Wallach, J. B., et al. (2021) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.033 · Cited by 316 · see citing works
<b>blavaan</b> : Bayesian Structural Equation Models via Parameter Expansion
Merkle, E. C., & Rosseel, Y. (2018) · Journal of Statistical Software · doi:10.18637/jss.v085.i04 · Cited by 360 · see citing works
A review of automatic differentiation and its efficient implementation
Margossian, C. C. (2019) · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery · doi:10.1002/widm.1305 · Cited by 344 · see citing works
“NUTS, supported by AD, indeed provides the algorithmic foundation for the probabilistic languages Stan (Carpenter et al., 2017) and PyMC3 (Salvatier, Wiecki, & Fonnesbeck, 2016).”
BackgroundAge groups that sustain resurging COVID-19 epidemics in the United States
Monod, M., Blenkinsop, A., Xi, X., Hebert, D. J., Bershan, S., Tietze, S., Baguelin, M., Bradley, V. C., Chen, Y., Coupland, H., et al. (2021) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abe8372 · Cited by 326 · see citing works
Viral Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Persons
Kissler, S. M., Fauver, J. R., Mack, C., Tai, C. G., Breban, M. I., Watkins, A. E., Samant, R. M., Anderson, D. J., Metti, J., Khullar, G., et al. (2021) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmc2102507 · Cited by 335 · see citing works
Flynn, D. F. B., & Wolkovich, E. M. (2018) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.15232 · Cited by 328 · see citing works
“STAN model code and output provided upon request.”
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Time for a change: a tutorial for comparing multiple classifiers through Bayesian analysisPreprint
Benavoli, A., Giorgio Corani, A., Demšar, J., & Marco Zaffalon, A. (2016) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.04316 · Cited by 324 · see citing works
“org) (Carpenter et al., 2016), a language for Bayesian inference.”
MethodBayesian Brains without Probabilities
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Inferring Continuous and Discrete Population Genetic Structure Across Space
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A psychometrics of individual differences in experimental tasks
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A genetic, genomic, and computational resource for exploring neural circuit function
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“We conduct Bayesian estimation using Stan (Carpenter et al. 2017), adopting the default improper uniform priors for δ , μ , and τ and restricting τ to be non-negative.”
MethodLife histories of myeloproliferative neoplasms inferred from phylogenies
Williams, N., Lee, J., Mitchell, E., Moore, L., Baxter, E. J., Hewinson, J., Dawson, K. J., Menzies, A., Godfrey, A. L., Green, A. R., et al. (2022) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04312-6 · Cited by 285 · see citing works
Stingray: A Modern Python Library for Spectral Timing
Huppenkothen, D., Bachetti, M., Stevens, A., Migliari, S., Balm, P. W., Hammad, O., Khan, U. M., Mishra, H., Rashid, H., Sharma, S., et al. (2019) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab258d · Cited by 282 · see citing works
“Constructing a universal modeling framework is a highly non-trivial task, and excellent packages exist for generalpurpose model building (e.g., STAN, Carpenter et al. 2017).”
MethodNguyen, M., La, V., Le, T.-T., & Vuong, Q. (2022) · MethodsX · doi:10.1016/j.mex.2022.101808 · Cited by 269 · see citing works
Population-wide analysis of differences in disease progression patterns in men and women
Westergaard, D., Moseley, P. L., Sørup, F. K. H., Baldi, P., & Brunak, S. (2019) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08475-9 · Cited by 274 · see citing works
Faster estimation of Bayesian models in ecology using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Monnahan, C. C., Thorson, J. T., & Branch, T. A. (2016) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12681 · Cited by 276 · see citing works
Excessive Neutrophils and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in COVID-19
Wang, J., Li, Q., Yin, Y., Zhang, Y., Cao, Y., Lin, X., Huang, L., Hoffmann, D. E., Lu, M., & Qiu, Y. (2020) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2020.02063 · Cited by 273 · see citing works
A Tutorial on Conducting and Interpreting a Bayesian ANOVA in JASP
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TensorFlow DistributionsPreprint
Dillon, J. V., Langmore, I., Tran, D., Brevdo, E., Vasudevan, S., Moore, D., Patton, B., Alemi, A., Hoffman, M., & Saurous, R. A. (2017) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.10604 · Cited by 284 · see citing works
“Stan Math [10] is a C++ templated library for numerical and statistical functions, and with automatic differentiation as the backend for the Stan probabilistic programming language [9].”
BackgroundSelf-citationTimeLapse-seq: adding a temporal dimension to RNA sequencing through nucleoside recoding
Schofield, J. A., Duffy, E. E., Kiefer, L. A., Sullivan, M., & Simon, M. D. (2018) · Nature Methods · doi:10.1038/nmeth.4582 · Cited by 261 · see citing works
MERS-CoV spillover at the camel-human interface
Dudas, G., Carvalho, L. M., Rambaut, A., Bedford, T., Somily, A. M., Barry, M., Subaie, S. S. A., BinSaeed, A. A., Alzamil, F. A., Zaher, W., et al. (2018) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.31257 · Cited by 260 · see citing works
Union through UNITY: Cosmology with 2000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework
Rubin, D., Aldering, G., Betoule, M., Fruchter, A., Huang, X., Kim, A., Lidman, C. E., Linder, E. V., Perlmutter, S., Ruiz-Lapuente, P., et al. (2025) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adc0a5 · Cited by 259 · see citing works
Toward a principled Bayesian workflow in cognitive science.
Schad, D. J., Betancourt, M., & Vasishth, S. (2021) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/met0000275 · Cited by 252 · see citing works
“Much progress has been made in the development of probabilistic programming languages such as Stan (Carpenter et al., 2017), WinBUGS (Lunn, Thomas, Best, & Spiegelhalter, 2000), JASP (JASP Team, 2019), and JAGS (Plummer, 2012).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citationDissecting the null model for biological invasions: A meta-analysis of the propagule pressure effect
Cassey, P., Delean, S., Lockwood, J. L., Sadowski, J. S., & Blackburn, T. M. (2018) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2005987 · Cited by 251 · see citing works
“All Bayesian models were fitted using the opensource software Stan [70, 71] and the R package brms [72].”
The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation
McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Meier, J. I., Marques, D. A., Mwaiko, S., Taabu‐Munyaho, A., Kishe, M. A., O’Meara, B. C., Bruggmann, R., Excoffier, L., et al. (2020) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2652-7 · Cited by 254 · see citing works
“Both Bayesian regression analysis 16 and a nonparametric test 17 suggest that the presence of large visually oriented predatory fish 18 and an arid climate are major constraints to speciation rate in cichlids, whereas male-restricted ornamentation (indicative of evolution in response to sexual…”
An interactive framework for whole-brain maps at cellular resolution
Fürth, D., Vaissière, T., Tzortzi, O., Xuan, Y., Märtin, A., Lazaridis, I., Spigolon, G., Fisone, G., Tomer, R., Deisseroth, K., et al. (2018) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41593-017-0027-7 · Cited by 215 · see citing works
Kissler, S. M., Fauver, J. R., Mack, C. D., Olesen, S. W., Tai, C. G.-L., Shiue, K. Y., Kalinich, C. C., Jednak, S., Ott, I. M., Vogels, C. B. F., et al. (2021) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001333 · Cited by 251 · see citing works
“We estimated the parameters of the regression model by fitting to the available data using a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm [9] yielding simulated draws from the Bayesian posterior distribution for each parameter.”
MethodDorsal hippocampus contributes to model-based planning
Miller, K. J., Botvinick, M., & Brody, C. D. (2017) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.4613 · Cited by 243 · see citing works
Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
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The Generalizability CrisisPreprint
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A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids
Ingham, V. A., Anthousi, A., Douris, V., Harding, N. J., Lycett, G. J., Morris, M., VONTAS, J. G., & Ranson, H. (2019) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1864-1 · Cited by 224 · see citing works
Overcoming Equifinality: Leveraging Long Time Series for Stream Metabolism Estimation
Appling, A., Hall, R. O., Yackulic, C. B., & Arroita, M. (2018) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · doi:10.1002/2017jg004140 · Cited by 234 · see citing works
“631 Bayesian models lean heavily on the general-purpose Bayesian modeling software Stan (Carpenter et al., 2017; Stan Development Team, 2016a) via the rstan R interface (Stan Development Team, 2016b).”
Influentialbridgesampling: An R Package for Estimating Normalizing Constants
Gronau, Q. F., Singmann, H., & Wagenmakers, E. (2020) · Journal of Statistical Software · doi:10.18637/jss.v092.i10 · Cited by 323 · see citing works
Evaluating Probabilistic Forecasts with scoringRules
Jordan, A. I., Krüger, F., & Lerch, S. (2019) · Journal of Statistical Software · doi:10.18637/jss.v090.i12 · Cited by 231 · see citing works
“MCMC methods are popular across the disciplines, and many sophisticated R implementations are available (e.g., Kastner 2016; Carpenter et al. 2017).”
Method
- Authors
- Carpenter, B., Gelman, A., Hoffman, M. D., Lee, D., Goodrich, B., Betancourt, M., Brubaker, M., Guo, J., Li, P., & Riddell, A.
- Affiliations
- Columbia University (US)
- Adobe Systems (United States) (US)
- York University (CA)
- Indiana University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Statistical Software
- Publisher
- Foundation for Open Access Statistic
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-32
- ISSN
- 1548-7660 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9788645
- OpenAlex
- W2577537660
- Semantic Scholar
- f8110d834fcc9a3a1c4416d4b165984219fe26f4
- Cited by
- 7,754
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 672 · 2025: 811 · 2024: 811 · 2023: 835 · 2022: 917 · 2021: 1127 · 2020: 970 · 2019: 752 · 2018: 516 · 2017: 253 · 2016: 81 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 474.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Statistical Software (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Grantee Submission
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0934516, 1205516)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DESC0002099)
- Harvard University
- National Institutes of Health (1g20rr030893-01)
- Institute of Education Sciences (R305D090006-09A, R305D090006)
- National Center for Research Resources (G20RR030893)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Data Analysis with R
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Keywords
- Stan, probabilistic programming languages, Bayesian inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, No-U-Turn Sampler, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, L-BFGS optimization, penalized likelihood, variational inference, expectation propagation, marginal inference, R interface, Python interface, posterior analysis
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