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I was talking to @theorashid who linked me to this case study of CAR priors. It seems like they're just MvNormals, but with degenerate covariance matrices. We can now sample from such distributions use the new method="eig"
or method="svd"
argument. So a potential rng_fn
would just make an appropriate MvNormal with the method argument set, then return it's rng_fn.
Looking at the logp
method for these distributions, it seems like it's just using the eig method; so we might be able to simplify these to wrappers around MvNormalRV
that just constructs the mean/covariance and sets the appropriate method, but that's a step beyond what this PR is asking for.