Results from playing with periodic models

It’s the above. The Jacobian is for the entire 2d transform. There’s no such thing as a “partial” Jacobian.

Alternative way to say it: if you put a prior only on amp then phase gets a uniform prior. A statement like

 target += von_mises_lpdf(phase| mu, kappa);

adds the difference between the uniform and von Mises probability density.

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