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General Stan resources

This is the top-level Wiki for Stan developers. User-facing information can be found on the

• Stan project home page.

If you have any questions about using Stan or Stan development, please feel free to ask on the

• Stan forums.

Developer Wikis

This section provides a complete list of developer-facing Wikis hosted in this repo.

Contributing to Stan without C++/OCaml experience

For a list of ways to contribute to Stan without being a C++/OCaml developer, see

• Contributing to Stan without C++/OCaml Experience

Getting started

For an overview of the project from a developer perspective, please read the

• Introduction to Stan for New Developers.

Software development process

The processes governing Stan development are outlined in the

• Developer Process Overview.

Coding style

The code style requirements for Stan are covered in

• Coding Style Guide.

Contributing new functions and algorithms

There is a wiki page about

• Contributing New Functions

and a separate page for

• Proposing New Algorithms.

Testing frameworks

For unit testing individual functions, see

• Testing: Unit Tests.

For continuous integration testing, see

• Testing: Continuous Integration.

For testing sampling behavior, see

• Testing: Samplers.

Prior choice wiki

Until it can be moved to the user's guide, this repo will continue to host the

• Prior Choice Wiki.