Closed bob-carpenter closed 6 years ago
I was just going to say the same, the manual may be split into several parts. Or its parts could be reordered. The Modelling language Reference should come first (though some of its content is repeated there).
If they're separate docs, there's no order. Aki just rearranged the manual in pull request #2102.
From @betanalpha in #354
Roadmap
Bayesian Inference in Practice
Stan in Practice
The Stan Reference Guide
The Stan Interfaces
The Stan Development Process
Nice, though maybe you are trying to embrace too much and you should leave most of the theory to any of the already existing books, and just focus on Stan.
A couple of different pieces of theory are going into separate docs. We're also writing some other introductions to methodology.
Summary:
Split the current manual into multiple documents. This in part mirrors how we're going to split the repos into a Stan language and Stan algorithms repo.
Reference Manual
Function Reference
User's Guide
Stan Software Developer's Guide
Introduction Statistical Inference
Notes
Current Version:
v2.12.0