/code></pre>
<p>JSON ignores whitespace. In the above examples, the spaces and newlines are
only used to improve readability and can be omitted.</p>
<p>All data inputs are encoded as name-value pairs. The following table
provides more examples of JSON data. The left column contains a Stan
data variable declaration and the right column contains valid JSON
data inputs.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th align="right">Stan variable</th>
<th align="center">JSON data</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr clas