make it easy to fit a model to data given in a pandas dataframe

[timodonnell]

and also specifying columns names for the parameters of the model, so we can extract a dataframe of fit results (I find myself manually doing this all the time)

[arahuja]

@timodonnell if you are interested and haven't started on this yet I can contribute my code that wrapped Stan and patsy to build simple linear models and extract some of the output into a dataframe (similar to the statsmodels model summary)

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I didn't do more than prototype this, but happy to flesh it out.

[timodonnell]

Sure, that would be awesome @arahuja !