v0.8.0

v0.8.0 (2020-01-04)

Diff since v0.7.4

Closed issues:

• Recommend memoization in docs for expensive functions in models when Gibbs sampling (#1024)
• Missing Pkg in dependencies (#1020)
• Numerical errors on Turing v0.7.4 (#1017)
• Problem with random switch (#1013)
• Error with Gibbs compositional sampler and an array (#1004)
• Elliptical slice sampling (#991)
• Simple syntax for querying the model and posterior sample (#989)
• Unifying assume and observe and handling missing data and user-input variable names (#972)
• Issues in Intro (#942)
• Cannot compile Turing on fresh Julia install (#936)
• Keyword arugments in @model are not treated as data (#911)
• Sampling from an InverseWishart with HMC (#883)
• Too much macro dependence? (#820)
• Log probability of an observation (#817)
• Model syntax: provide automatically all random variables as argument? (#792)
• Use ModelingToolkit for frontend or IR? (#789)
• Observe vectorisation issue. (#761)
• Assume in vectorisation of HMC bug. (#760)
• Function to add to logp within @model Turing model (#754)
• Unifying error messages. (#747)
• Option to reject samples that cause errors (#703)
• Why does @model build a declaration instead of a value? (#667)
• array comprehension for random variables (#604)
• Compiler generated aliases (#533)
• Compiler does not pass on the sampler (#532)
• @varname can be replaced with a function (#514)
• Refactoring VarName: new indexing scheme (#484)
• Change broadcasting for ~ macro (#476)
• Evaluating the posterior (#400)
• Specialised inference (#313)

Merged pull requests:

• Increment version number to 0.8.0 (#1054) (cpfiffer)
• Update index.html (#1051) (yebai)
• Make MH in Gibbs faster (#1050) (mohamed82008)
• Use div instead of round (#1049) (devmotion)
• Remove == true and == false (#1048) (devmotion)
• Comparisons with nothing (#1047) (devmotion)
• Use preferred truncated instead of Truncated (#1045) (devmotion)
• Remove static type parameters (#1044) (devmotion)
• Update index.html (#1041) (yebai)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "MCMCChains" to "1.0" (#1040) (github-actions[bot])
• Fix docstrings and remove static type parameters (#1037) (devmotion)
• Do not allow nothing as sampler (#1036) (devmotion)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "LogDensityProblems" to "0.10" (#1035) (github-actions[bot])
• Replace deprecated TruncatedNormal (#1033) (devmotion)
• Replace deprecated option (#1031) (devmotion)
• Remove .travis.yml site build (#1030) (cpfiffer)
• Set up Ruby before building the documentation (#1029) (devmotion)
• Update index.html (#1028) (yebai)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "SpecialFunctions" to "0.9" (#1027) (github-actions[bot])
• Minor website changes & GitHub actions setup (#1026) (cpfiffer)
• Add memoization when Gibbs sampling to performance tips (#1025) (mohamed82008)
• Add sorted=true in Chain constructor (#1023) (cpfiffer)
• Update website (#1022) (cpfiffer)
• CompatHelper: bump compat for "Requires" to "1.0" (#1021) (github-actions[bot])
• Fix interface guide (#1018) (cpfiffer)
• Add elliptical slice sampling algorithm (#1000) (devmotion)
• prob and logprob macros for simple model queries (#997) (mohamed82008)
• Add explicit resampler with ESS threshold (#990) (devmotion)
• Compiler 3.0 (#965) (mohamed82008)