Fit a Stan Model using an approximate method

Fits a stan model using variational inference.

Usage

fit_model_approximate(args, future = FALSE, id = "stan")

Arguments

args

List of stan arguments.

future

Logical, defaults to FALSE. Should future be used to run stan chains in parallel.

id

A character string used to assign logging information on error. Used by regional_epinow() to assign errors to regions. Alter the default to run with error catching.

Value

A stan model object