Stan

Stan is an open source software and also freedom respecting which is mainly used for facilitating statistical inference at the frontiers of applied statistics.

Stan platform usually is made capable by a number of allies who kindly support this platform, first of all, stan consists of the Stan development team which rather shows that the project is a team of effort comprised of full time and volunteer developers around the world, it consists of core developers for instance we have Andrew Gelman from Columbia University, Daniel Lee from the Stan group, Ben Goodrich also from Columbia University, Michael Betancourt from Columbia University, Aki Vehtari from Aalto Universityrzysztof Sakrejda from the University of Massachusetts and Rayleigh Lei from University of Michigan.

Stan consists also of a funding team which is very important to the Stan existence, the funding organization has offered generous support of grants, foundations, and sponsors. Some of the donors include Google, research and development grants such as Max Planck institute for evolutionary Anthropology(Leipzig) and Alfred p.Sloan foundation.

stan is also funded by some government grants such as U. S. office of naval research and U. S. institute of education sciences. Stan is also currently funded in part through consulting arrangements with the following corporations; Novartis, Alcon, and YouGov. Stan is now also now linked to NumFOCUS, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves several other open-source software projects, including NumPy, Julia, Jupyter, and others.

All financial decisions related to NumFOCUS are made by Stan’s Leadership Body for NumFOCUS: Julie Bertrand (INSERM), Michael Betancourt (Columbia University), Tamara Broderick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),Bob Carpenter (Columbia University), Andrew Gelman (Columbia University), Dan Simpson (University of Bath), Elizabeth Wolkovich (Harvard University).