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advi should output mean parameters as a commented line in csv #82

Open alashworth opened 5 years ago

alashworth commented 5 years ago

Issue by dustinvtran Monday Nov 02, 2015 at 18:26 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/stan-dev/stan/issues/1661

See stan-users discussion.

I think the sample file that's output from variational inference should match the one output for MCMC if at all possible.

Would it be possible to take that summary of means and write it out as a comment? Or in a separate output file?

Going forward, we're going to split the outputs in Stan 3 (if I get my way) so that we don't try to overload CSV notation with out-of-encoding comment information that needs to be parsed, which is too hard to deal with other than with our own I/O tools (which themselves become hard to maintain).

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