Simple ques: vector ~ normal(0, real)

Modeling
1

I wanted to understand how stan understands vector ~ normal(0, real) (sorry I have a very basic understanding of stan). More precisely,

parameters {
  vector[N] a;
}
model {
  a ~ normal(0, 1); 
}

Does this mean that each dimension of a is independent and normally distributed?

2

Yes!

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