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@ito4303 ito4303 commented Mar 25, 2025

Added explanations on the generation of posterior predictive distribution

add explanations on the generation of posterior predictive distribution
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I'm going to merge this, but I'm a bit curious, because the comments say:

// This code generates the posterior predictive distribution
// unconditioned on the observation

A posterior predictive distribution is by definition conditioned on some observations, it's $p(\tilde{y} \mid y)$ where $\tilde{y}$ is new data and $y$ is observed data.

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P.S. Thanks for continuing to maintain this. We still use a lot of these models for bulk testing and people still use them as the basis for models they develop.

@bob-carpenter bob-carpenter merged commit d22fc71 into stan-dev:master Mar 26, 2025
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