CmdStanMCMC.summary: allow filtering of variables
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Description
This can use the -i argument from https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/pull/1143
Some care will be needed if we want to support mapping from containers to all their indices, e.g. if the user can specify vars=['a'] for a vector[3] a; and that's equivalent to -i a.1 -i a.2 -i a.3
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating CmdStanMCMC.summary and compare its variable handling with CmdStan's -i argument described in pull request 1143. Done means summary accepts a variable filter and defines whether a container such as vector[3] a can expand to all indexed variables.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100