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Re: Evaluating integrals

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• Subject: [mg66419] Re: Evaluating integrals
• From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 05:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: The University of Western Australia
• References: <e3hf47$m09$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <e3hf47$m09$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 5/5/06 at 5:03 AM, chris.chiasson at gmail.com (Chris Chiasson)
> wrote:
> 
> >RE: the below commands Given the ouput of the second command, why
> >does the third work?
> 
> ><<Statistics`
> >Information[ExpectedValue]
> >ExpectedValue[Function[c,Exp[-r b c]],NormalDistribution[mu,s]]
> 
> My *guess* would be that one of packages other than 
> Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` has added additional definitions for 
> ExpectedValue without modifying the help message provided by 
> Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` for ExpectedValue. I haven't actually 
> reviewed the code inside the packages for ExpectedValue to either confirm or 
> deny my guess.

When you load the statistics stub via

  << Statistics`

and then do 

  ?ExpectedValue

the message for ExpectedValue in Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` is 
returned. Now, if you explicitly load

  << Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`

and then do 

  ?ExpectedValue

then the message for ExpectedValue in this latter package, is returned. 
This latter message covers both the discrete and continuous cases.

Cheers,
Paul

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