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from #1409

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If we change it, Sigma would be a more conventional choice; Tau usually implies an inverse-variance.

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coveralls commented Sep 28, 2016 •
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Coverage remained the same at 84.127% when pulling f1c4898 on philastrophist:master into 220643d on pymc-devs:master.

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MvNormal doesn't appear to accept sigma though

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twiecki commented Sep 28, 2016

@philastrophist It does as of #1398. You need update your pymc3 to master.

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