Hello, I recently purchased Allen Downey’s Think Bayes - I’m working through Chapter 20 - Counting Cells (the chapter can be opened in Google Colab here ). There is a question I’m pondering that affects some of my models. It seems that we do not want all random variables to be adaptive (i.e., have…

Thank you Christian. That thread with the updated API yields the following code, which will fix the shaker volume variables so they do not update: import theano.tensor as tt rand_stream = tt.random.utils.RandomStream() with pm.Model() as model: yeast_conc = pm.Normal("yeast conc", …

Frozen or non-adaptive distribution for random variable

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cluhmann January 3, 2022, 3:04am 9

Check out @junpenglao’s answers in this thread. Does that give you what you need?

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