Summary

#3007 introduced a few bugs by assuming check_cholesky_factor internally called check_square. This re-adds the missing checks.

Tests

Side Effects

Release notes

Fixed a few additional issues in checking the inputs to distributions defined over cholesky matrices.

Checklist

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• the basic tests are passing

  • unit tests pass (to run, use: ./runTests.py test/unit)
  • header checks pass, (make test-headers)
  • dependencies checks pass, (make test-math-dependencies)
  • docs build, (make doxygen)
  • code passes the built in C++ standards checks (make cpplint)

• the code is written in idiomatic C++ and changes are documented in the doxygen

• the new changes are tested