Articles

Getting started

Understanding the basic usage and philosophy of the package

Getting Started with SBC

SBC rank visualizations

Using SBC for debugging/validating Stan models

Case studies showing how problems in a Stan model can be discovered with SBC.

Discovering bad parametrization with SBC

Discovering indexing errors with SBC

Small model implementation workflow

Additional use cases and advanced topics

Limits of SBC

SBC for ADVI and optimizing in Stan (+HMMs)

Implementing a new backend (algorithm) + frequentist approximations

SBC for brms models

SBC with discrete parameters in Stan and JAGS

Rejection sampling in simulations

SBC for bayes factors (with rstan and bridgesampling)