Speaker: Will Landau (PhD '16), Senior Research Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company

Title: Bayesian Pipelines with stantargets

Abstract: The stantargets R package is an extension of CmdStanR, a lightweight interface to Stan, and targets, a general-purpose pipeline tool for reproducible research and high-performance computing. In stantargets, a complicated Stan workflow becomes a concise targets pipeline, and targets orchestrates the pipeline to efficiently bring the results up to date with the underlying code and data. By simplifying pipeline creation, stantargets reduces the practical burden of developing and maintaining reproducible analysis workflows for Bayesian statistics. This talk introduces stantargets and demonstrates it using a Bayesian longitudinal linear model.