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I wonder if we can retrieve iteration-level draws of random parameters in hierarchical Bayesian estimation. We do have individual-level posterior means, which should be calculated using these draws. I want to analyze the distribution of posterior/conditional means across a sample, say, \beta * LV_n with a fixed \beta. I can retrieve iteration-level draws of \beta using