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A class for defining gamma priors to be translated to Stan code. Objects of class GammaPrior should not be created directly but by the constructor gamma_prior().

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stan_code

character. Stan implementation of the prior, with placeholders for gamma stan function parameters surrounded with {{ and }} to be replaced with glue::glue().

n_param

integer. Number of prior parameters (2).

constraint

character. Support of prior distribution, "<lower=0>".

alpha

numeric. Shape (>0).

beta

numeric. Inverse scale (>=0).