implicit differentiation and subscripted variables?



Thanks for the suggestion.

In fact, no formal 'relationship' between S and a -- the use is merely 
symbolic (verging on straight aesthetics). I have a parameter S which 
takes in different values for different classes of 'individuals' in the 
sample -- so, S_a, s_o, S_j etc....

What I had often done (with Maple) is throw all the parameters in a 
vector S, and used the subscript to 'call' them. The implicitdiff 
function in Maple has no problem with this (note: not a complaint about 
Maxima in any form -- I'm just trying to suss out the easiest way to 
proceed).



On 10/3/2011 11:37 AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
> I suggest you start your session by defining
>
> s[u]:=concat(s,u);
>
> and see if you like what happens.  Do you need s[a] to depend on a??
> RJF
>
>