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Documentation for the Stan language and CmdStan
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Improve docs with respect to statistical terminology #788

Closed avehtari closed 2 months ago

avehtari commented 2 months ago

Now that sampling statement has been changed to distribution statement, I continued checking the terms used

avehtari commented 2 months ago

I added to this PR also changing the section title "Sampling statement" in functions reference, which I had missed earlier

bob-carpenter commented 2 months ago

Thanks, @avehtari and @WardBrian --- this is a really great idea. I never understood before what people meant by "aleatoric" uncertainty. I describe this in other words later in the guide for posterior predictive inference which has terms p(y' | theta) for the aleatoric uncertainty and p(theta | y) for the epistemic uncertainty.