I don't think you are missing anything. Moreover, I think that wikipedia
just has an error in this regard.
Following their chain of definitions leads to this example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_(measure_theory)#A_uniform_distribution
If the uniform distribution on the open interval (0,1) has the closed set
[0,1] as its support then the beta distribution
obviously does as well. In fact, the definition they use starts with "The
largest closed set ...".
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mikkel Meyer Andersen <mikl@mikl.dk> wrote:
> > I am happy to keep them if I can get a clear understanding of what they
> > mean. As I said in the original post, I think I must be missing
> something
> > that makes them meaningful. If you use the definition that I gave of
> > support, other than infinities, the endpoints are always going to be
> > included. Could well be I am missing something.
> No, I don't think that you've missed anything. I probably haven't
> given it a decent thought when I included them to begin with. So the
> right think is to remove those functions following the de facto
> definition of support.
>
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