-The noise scale is proportional, so the following prior should be weakly informative, as a value smaller than 0.05 or larger than 3 would be unexpected.^[The 95% interval is approximately the mean plus or minus two standard deviations, which here is $\exp(-1 - 2) \approx 0.05$ and $\exp(-1 + 2) \approx 3$]. Because values are positive, this prior adopts the lognormal distribution.^[A lognormal prior on $\sigma$ is not consistent with zero values of $\sigma$, but we do not expect the data to be consistent with values of $\sigma$ near zero because the model will is not particularly accurate. It makes well calibrated predictions, but they are not very sharp.]
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