Add jitter_scale parameter for initial point generation

[aphc14]

Description

Add jitter_scale parameter to control the bounds of uniform jitter in initial points. This allows users to adjust the width of random initialisation, which is useful for the Multi-path Pathfinder algorithm to explore posteriors in a larger parameter space or where the posterior mean is much further away from the prior mean.

Changes:

• Add jitter_scale parameter (default=1.0) to initial point functions
• Update jitter bounds from U(-1,1) to U(-jitter_scale, jitter_scale)
• Add test_jitter_scale to verify scaling behaviour
• Update docstrings to reflect new parameter

Related Issue

• Closes ENH: Option to adjust the uniform distribution bounds for jitter/initialisation #7555
• Related to Pathfinder PR in pymc-extras

Checklist

• Checked that the pre-commit linting/style checks pass
• Included tests that prove the fix is effective or that the new feature works
• Added necessary documentation (docstrings and/or example notebooks)
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Type of change

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• Bug fix
• Documentation
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[ricardoV94]

Need to update the docstrings of the function that now accept jitter_scale

[ricardoV94]

If it's required in this inner function, there's no need for the if/else?