On Jun 4, 3:58 am, John Reid <j.r...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> kcrisman wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this is really worth a bug report to Maxima
> > either; what answer were you expecting (a generalized beta function,
> > maybe) to receive?  Perhaps that function does not yet exist in
> > Maxima. Incidentally, you can find more information about what
> > manipulations you can do with the regular beta function in Maxima at
> >http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_16.html.
>
> I was kind of hoping for a multinomial beta function. Thanks for the info.

Or some combination of Gammas, right?  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution

I don't believe Maxima (or any other component of Sage, or even
proprietary competitors) have this function per se.  Would you be
interested in trying to implement something like this for Sage and/or
Maxima?  Sorry we can't be of more help.

- kcrisman

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