Terminology: Program vs Model

[Daniel Lee]

Should we be calling what's in a .stan file a Stan program? I know we've been calling it a Stan model, but 'model' is overloaded with its use as a named block in the Stan language.

[Andrew Gelman]

Yes.

On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Daniel Lee <bea...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

Should we be calling what's in a .stan file a Stan program? I know we've been calling it a Stan model, but 'model' is overloaded with its use as a named block in the Stan language.

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[Bob Carpenter]

Yes, please.

Andrew was unhappy with the overload and I didn't
want to change the tag "model" in a program file.

- Bob

On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Daniel Lee <bea...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Should we be calling what's in a .stan file a Stan program? I know we've been calling it a Stan model, but 'model' is overloaded with its use as a named block in the Stan language.
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