tiplier and to a more natural offset for the sampling process,
for instance by fascilitating a non-centered parameterisation.
While these affine transformation declarations do not impose a hard constraint
on variables, they behave like the bounds constraints in many ways and could
perhaps be viewed as acting as a sort of soft constraint.</p>
<p>The variable <code>x</code> may be declared to have offset <span class="math inline">\(1\)</span> as follows.</p>
<pre class="stan"><code>real&lt;offset=1&gt; x;</co