https://github.com/wardbrian/tinystan

Easy, minimal interface to the Stan samplers in several languages
https://github.com/wardbrian/tinystan

c ffi julia python r stan

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Easy, minimal interface to the Stan samplers in several languages

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wardbrian/tinystan
• Owner: WardBrian
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2023-07-01T04:01:33.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-11T16:21:43.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-12T18:13:02.331Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: c, ffi, julia, python, r, stan
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://brianward.dev/tinystan/
• Size: 1.93 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# TinyStan

> [!WARNING]

> This project is still under active development. The API is not yet stable, and the documentation is incomplete. Using before a 1.0 release is not recommended for most users.

**TinyStan** is a library that provides a C interface to the [Stan](https://mc-stan.org) algorithms, such as sampling with the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS),

and language bindings in Julia, Python, and R.

It is intended to be a counterpart to [BridgeStan](https://github.com/roualdes/bridgestan), which provides a C interface to the methods of a Stan *model*.

Similar packages are [PyStan](https://mc-stan.org/users/interfaces/pystan) and [RStan](https://mc-stan.org/users/interfaces/rstan).

TinyStan differs from those packages by working at a lower level of interaction between the user's language and Stan, in a way

which should be more portable. No language-specific code is required to compile TinyStan, and the same model can be used from

any of the supported languages.