It tells you farther down in the code. M_*
is the number of standard deviations that it has to estimate for that grouping factor. And the Z_
variables are the variables to the left of the |
in the formula, which are often going to be 1. So, you get code in the model block like
mu[n] = mu[n] + (r_1_1[J_1[n]]) * Z_1_1[n] + (r_2_1[J_2[n]]) * Z_2_1[n];
which extracts the appropriate r_
value by ID and multiplies it by the corresponding Z_
value to update the conditional mean.