aka "Bayesian Methods for Hackers": An introduction to Bayesian methods + probabilistic programming with a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view. All in pure Python ;)
This confused me today too. I'd suggest removing this line entirely as it seems to have been copied from the PyMC2 version of Ch2, where a function is actually being declared:
@pm.deterministic
def some_deterministic_var(v1=v1,):
#jelly goes here.
For all purposes, we can treat the object some_deterministic_var as a variable and not a Python function.
However same the sentence doesn't make sense for PyMC3.
This confused me today too. I'd suggest removing this line entirely as it seems to have been copied from the PyMC2 version of Ch2, where a function is actually being declared:
However same the sentence doesn't make sense for PyMC3.