se (traditionally referred to as “burn-in”). Stan uses its warmup phase to tune the no-U-turn sampler (NUTS).</p>
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<h3 class="unnumbered anchored" data-anchor-id="the-stan-language-is-directly-executable-the-bugs-modeling-language-is-not">The Stan language is directly executable, the BUGS modeling language is not</h3>
<p>The BUGS modeling language is not directly executable. Rath