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Sorry if it is not an appropriate place for such questions, but anyway can anybody please confirm that the formula for the density function of the four-parameter Beta distribution is correct in Wikipedia. It seems $(c - a)$ is missing in the denominator. Thank you.

Best regards, Ivan

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    Such questions are ok; there was a discussion about (more-or-less) similar questions: [Questions concerning editing of wikipedia articles](http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/2771/questions-concerning-editing-of-wikipedia-articles).2012-08-06

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Yes, the factor is indeed missing.

Let $X$ be standard 2-parameter Beta random variable. The four-parameter one $Y$ is obtained by affine transformation $Y = (c-a) X + a$ for $c>a$. Then $$ f_Y(y) = \frac{1}{c-a} f_X\left(\frac{y-a}{c-a}\right) = \frac{1}{c-a} \left(\frac{y-a}{c-a} \right)^{\alpha-1} \left(\frac{c-y}{c-a} \right)^{\beta-1} \frac{\mathbf{1}(a < y

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    Thanks. If anybody knows how to fix it in Wikipedia, can you please do it?2012-08-06
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    @Ivan: Done. It's straightforward to contribute to Wikipedia, by the way; just click on the "edit" link; you can fix things without registering if you want.2012-08-06
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    @joriki : I was about to say all you need to do is click on "edit" and then edit, but I see you beat me to it. I've actually heard professors say they'd like to change things in Wikipedia articles but they don't know how.2012-08-06