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<h3>Random-number generating functions</h3>
<p>For most of the distributions supported by Stan, there is a
corresponding random-number generating function. These random number
generators are named by the distribution with the suffix <code>_rng</code>.
For example, a univariate normal random number can be generated by
<code>normal_rng(0, 1)</code>; only the parameters of the distribution,
here a location (0) and scale (1) are specified because the variate is
generated