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What use of 'sum' in this line code?

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Hi,

I find below code snippet on line:


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m = 10
theta_A = 0.8
theta_B = 0.3
theta_0 = [theta_A, theta_B]

coin_A = bernoulli(theta_A)
coin_B = bernoulli(theta_B)

xs = map(sum, [coin_A.rvs(m), coin_A.rvs(m), coin_B.rvs(m), coin_A.rvs(m), coin_B.rvs(m)])
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I see 
[coin_A.rvs(m), coin_A.rvs(m), coin_B.rvs(m), coin_A.rvs(m), coin_B.rvs(m)]

is simply a list, but I don't know what use of 'sum' in this line.
I replace the random number with a simple list:
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yy=map(sum, [13, 22, 33, 41])

In [24]: yy
Out[24]: [13, 22, 33, 41]
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I don't see 'sum' has any effect above.
The code source is from:
#http://people.duke.edu/~ccc14/sta-663/EMAlgorithm.html


What could you help me on the 'sum'?

Thanks,

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What use of 'sum' in this line code? Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 16:28 -0800
  Re: What use of 'sum' in this line code? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-01-04 11:43 +1100
  Re: What use of 'sum' in this line code? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-04 00:48 +0000
  Re: What use of 'sum' in this line code? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-04 01:53 +0100
    Re: What use of 'sum' in this line code? Robert <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 18:44 -0800

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