ence diagnostics. This is not a coincidence: in designing Stan: we wanted to keep many of the useful features of Bugs.</p>
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<h2 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="some-differences-in-how-bugs-and-stan-work">Some differences in how BUGS and Stan work</h2>
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<h3 class="unnumbered anchored" data-anchor-id="bugs-is-interpreted-stan-is-compiled">BUGS is interpreted, St