IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28

Menu: View→Interface Properties→Stan

Select this option in order to open a command prompt window each time you export a model to Stan. The command prompt window will open with the current working directory set to the directory that contains the files that Amos exported.

If, say, the model is in the file Ex39.amw, the exported files consist of

•Ex39.stan This is the Stan program that specifies your model. This file that will be compiled and executed by whatever version of Stan you use. Double-click this file to open Amos's interface to CmdStan.

•Ex39.Data.R This is a data file in Stan format. It contains only those measured variables that appear in the model. It excludes any variables in the original data file that are not part of the model.

•Ex39.cmd Double-click this Windows batch file to perform a Stan analysis using CmdStan (provided that CmdStan is installed.)

•Ex39.R This is an R script for using the rstan R package for fitting the model. You can configure Windows File Explorer to open RStudio when you double-click this file (provided that RStudio and the rstan package are installed.)

These files are can be viewed in any text editor.