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Hi, I would like to know whether there exist algorithms to compute the coefficients or, at least, the degree of the minimal polynomial of a square matrix A (over the field of complex numbers)? I don't know whether this would require symbolic computation. If not, has any of the algorithms been implemented in R? Thanks very much, Ravi. P.S. Just for the sake of completeness, a

I want to fit some p-values to a beta distribution. But the problem is some of the values have 0s and 1's. I am getting an error if I use the MASS function to do this. Is there anyway to get around this? -- Thanks, Jim. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]