pymc-devs/pymc — Issue #79: beta should be defined as a rate parameter for the Gamma distribution
Author: isofer
Created: 2012-01-11 16:40:10+00:00
State: open

In the documentation of the Gamma variable beta is defined as a scale parameter.
according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution) it should be defined as a rate parameter. The scale parameter is 1/beta.