Ted Harding wrote: > > And, specifically (to take just 2 RVs X and Y), while U = X/(X+Y) > and V = Y/(A+Y) are two RVs which summ to 1, the distribution of U > is not the same as the distribution of X conditional on (X+Y = 1). > This question appeared in October 2006, and the answer was the Dirichlet distribution with parameters (1,1,1...1):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution It's the distribution of uniform U1, U2, ... Un with the restriction that U1 + U2 + ... + Un = 1. Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
