Integrate Dirichlet distribution



John Reid wrote:
> David Billinghurst wrote:
>> John Reid wrote:
>>> I've been trying to evaluate sage for integration and expression 
>>> manipulation in the context of probabilistic models. I understand it 
>>> uses Maxima for this. After posting on the sage mailing list I was 
>>> pointed here for further help/discussion.
>>>
>>> My problem is that Maxima can integrate a beta distribution but not 
>>> a Dirichlet distribution.
>>>
>> Adding indefinite integrals of special functions is reasonably easy 
>> to do.
>>
>
> Thanks, I'll have a look at the examples you gave. Is it still simple 
> when the function is of multiple variables and you want to define a 
> rule for when you integrate over all of them?
No.  To the best of my knowledge, maxima only integrates one dimension 
at a time.