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hyperprior_betas

Scale (beta) of the inverse gamma hyper-parameter prior

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): REALLIST

## Description

Scale of the prior distribution for calibrated error multipliers. Either a single value or number of hyper-parameters values may be specified.

Defaults to 103.0 (with alpha = 102.0) so mean and mode are approximately 1.0 and standard deviation is about 0.1.