Introduction to Bayesian Tools

Introduction

The R community has developed packages for the Stan and Bayesian modeling workflow. BBR is designed to integrate into this modular workflow and uses the cmdstanr interface to Stan. All these tools are free and open-source.

Stan

Stan is a state-of-the-art platform for Bayesian statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. More information about Stan model structure, syntax, and probabilistic programming can be found at the links below.

Stan Installation of cmdstan Stan documentation Stan user guide Stan tutorials Stan forums

CmdStanR

CmdStanR is a lightweight interface to Stan for R users. More information about using CmdStanR can be found at the links below.

cmdstanr Getting Started vignette

Posterior

Provides tools for working with output from Bayesian models, including output from CmdStan.

posterior Vignette

Tidybayes

Integrates Bayesian modeling with the tidyverse and ggplot.

tidybayes Vignette Vignette Posterior package example

Bayesplot

Plotting Bayesian models and diagnostics with ggplot.

bayesplot Vignettes

LOO

Efficient computation of the leave-one-out information criteria for model evaluation.

loo Getting started Vigettes Article