Use `scope` effect handler for distributions with multiple RandomVariable arguments
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https://num.pyro.ai/en/stable/handlers.html#scope
For example, a Negative-Binomial distribution, could be given one name, "Infections" and its parameters automatically renamed "Infections_mean" and "Infections_dispersion" or similar.
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