Add variances dispatch for distributions #8084
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Description
This PR adds a
variancefunction that returns the (symbolic) variance of a distribution. I added it because I thought it would be nice to have for the AutoGuide stuff; we can use themeanandvarianceof priors to initialize the parameters.This is a 90%+ LLM PR. I went through and tried to clean things up. I mostly copied the patterns from
mean.py.Related Issue
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