specified because the variate is
generated.</p>
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<h4>Random-number generators locations</h4>
<p>The use of random-number generating functions is restricted to the
transformed data and generated quantities blocks; attempts to use them
elsewhere will result in a parsing error with a diagnostic message.
They may also be used in the bodies of user-defined functions whose
names end in <code>_rng</code>.</p>
<p>This allows the random n