is better to run it
once before to get the covariance matrix, or the estimates
are not needed with adaptive NUTS.</p></dd>


<dt id="arg-skip-monitor">skip_monitor<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-skip-monitor"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Whether to skip calculating diagnostics
(effective sample size, Rhat) via the <code><a href="https://mc-stan.org/rstan/reference/monitor.html" class="external-link">rstan::monitor</a></code>
function. This can be slow for models with high dimension or
many ite