# Display values from Distributions

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** distributions\
**Created:** [August 15, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971 "2020-08-15T00:17:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![sriharitn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@sriharitn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sriharitn)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/1 "2020-08-15T00:17:15Z")

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I’m trying to assign values of `Beta(a,b)` function in Distributions package to `x` but the value is not printing in console.

```julia
using Distributions
x = Beta(1,2)

```

Gives me

```julia
julia> x
Beta{Float64}(α=1.0, β=2.0)

```

How can I assign the value to `x` and print it on console?

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/2 "2020-08-15T00:29:49Z")

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When you call `Beta(1,2)` you are creating a distribution with parameters alpha 1 and beta 2.

Do you want to randomly sample from that distribution instead?

```julia
x = rand(Beta(1,2),10)

```

If not, can you clarify what you expected this to be doing?

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**Author:** ![sriharitn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@sriharitn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sriharitn)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/3 "2020-08-15T00:35:57Z")

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> [@tbeason](#):
>
> Beta(1,2)

Thank you, I want to print the value of `Beta(1,2)` value which is 0.5, as an example in `R` the value of beta function is

```julia
> beta(1,2)
[1] 0.5

```

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/4 "2020-08-15T00:39:43Z")

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Ah ok. You want the Beta function, not the Beta distribution.

```julia
using SpecialFunctions
x = beta(1,2)

```

👍

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**Author:** ![sriharitn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@sriharitn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sriharitn)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/5 "2020-08-15T00:41:52Z")

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thank you, I just found that as well.

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**Author:** ![yoninazarathy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yoninazarathy/32/10086_2.png) [@yoninazarathy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yoninazarathy)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/display-values-from-distributions/44971/6 "2020-08-15T01:00:01Z")

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A bit more about `Beta()` the distribution and `beta()` the special function is in Listing 3.24 pg. 111 in the [Statistics with Julia Book Draft](https://statisticswithjulia.org/).