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Noise precision updates

Here we give the update equation for the parameters of the noise precision distribution $ q(\phi_{\epsilon_i}\vert y)=Ga(b_{\epsilon_i},c_{\epsilon_i})$:

$\displaystyle \frac{1}{b_{\epsilon_i}}$ $\displaystyle =$ $\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}
\left(
\sum_t(
y_{it}-x_tQ\mu_{B_i}-\sum_p(y_{i(t-p)}...
..._{B_i})a_{pi}
)^2
+
\text{Trace}(\Lambda_{\beta_i}^{-1}\sum_t x_t^Tx_t)
\right.$  
  $\displaystyle +$ $\displaystyle \left. \sum_p
\left\{
(\Lambda_{a_{p}}^{-1})_i\sum_t(y_{i(t-p)}-x_{t-p}Q\mu_{B_i})^2
\right\}
\right)
+ \frac{1}{b_{\epsilon_0}}$  
$\displaystyle c_{\epsilon_i}$ $\displaystyle =$ $\displaystyle (T-1)/2+c_{\epsilon_0}$ (47)

we define $ \gamma_{\epsilon_i}$ as:
$\displaystyle \gamma_{\epsilon_i}$ $\displaystyle =$ $\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma(b_{\epsilon_i})\Gamma(c_{\epsilon_i}+1)}{\Gamma(c_{\epsilon_i})}$ (48)