I found this recent paper showing how to fit and diagnose a simple non-linear model in Stan helpful. It is written from a statistician's perspective. http://www

I found this recent paper showing how to fit and diagnose a simple non-linear model in Stan helpful. It is written from a statistician's perspective. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/stan_jebs_2.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/stan... This one has more of a CS feel to it: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/stan-paper-revision-feb2015.pdf http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/stan... Lastly, here is my own turbulent experience with getting started with Stan: http://ericnovik.github.io/2015/08/14/Getting-Started-with-Stan.html http://ericnovik.github.io/2015/08/14/Getting-Started-with-S...