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Re: Problem with Distribution Functions

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  • Subject: [mg84793] Re: Problem with Distribution Functions
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:09:42 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Uni Leipzig
  • References: <fmfibi$las$1@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Hi,

you have Mathematica 5.2 ? and you forgott to load
<< Statistics`ContinuousDistributions`
??

Regards
   Jens

Stephan Heckmueller wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a little problem with Mathematica's statistical 
> distributions. These seem not to be evauluated properly.
> For example the documentation says that 
> Variance[GammaDistribution[a,b]] should be evaluated to 
> ab^2. In my worksheets I simply get: 
> Variance[GammaDistribution[a,b]]. There are no errors 
> or warnings whatsoever.
> 
> Is there some package missing do I have to call the 
> needs function in advance?
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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