What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?

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What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?
Message posted by Cees Luijendijk on February 14, 2001 at 12:00 AM (ET)

Can someone tell me what the function is of the excelcommand: BETADIST. This function has two parameters A&B. With the mathematical formula I can understand the influence of A&B

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Re: What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?
Message posted by Phil on February 16, 2001 at 12:00 AM (ET)

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Re: What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?
Message posted by romy (via 202.131.120.98) on April 10, 2001 at 6:53 AM (ET)

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Re: What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?
Message posted by Rob Jeges (via 203.164.3.178) on April 26, 2001 at 6:40 AM (ET)

Betadist(x,a,b,A,B)=Integral(A,x):K*(x-A)^a*(B-x)^b*dx
K is an adjusting factor to let (B,a,b,A,B)=1.

Re: What is the mathemetical formula of the Excel Beta distribution?
Message posted by verdi (via 202.155.2.83) on January 26, 2002 at 1:02 AM (ET)

Dear Rob Joger,
could you give a detail formula for BETADIST(x,a,b,A,B). Include A and B variable. thanks

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