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...the symmetric beta distribution B(shape, shape), where the two parameters shape1 and shape2 are identical) to my data. The trouble is that I experience some problems also when dealing with the plain vanilla symmetric beta distribution. Please consider the code at the end of the email. In the code, dbeta1 is the density of the beta distribution for shape1=shape2=shape. In the code, dbeta2 is the same quantity written explicitly, without the normalization factor (which should not matter at all if we talk about maximizing a quantity). I then generate some random numbers according to Beta(0.2, 0.2) an...

...the symmetric beta distribution B(shape, shape), where the two parameters shape1 and shape2 are identical) to my data. The trouble is that I experience some problems also when dealing with the plain vanilla symmetric beta distribution. Please consider the code at the end of the email. In the code, dbeta1 is the density of the beta distribution for shape1=shape2=shape. In the code, dbeta2 is the same quantity written explicitly, without the normalization factor (which should not matter at all if we talk about maximizing a quantity). I then generate some random numbers according to Beta(0.2, 0.2) an...