Yes. You assume that you are predicting for a site from which you did not have observations, and thus you draw the site-specific parameters (aka “random effects”) from the prior using _rng()
, which corresponds to integrating over them.
Yes. You assume that you are predicting for a site from which you did not have observations, and thus you draw the site-specific parameters (aka “random effects”) from the prior using _rng()
, which corresponds to integrating over them.