Question: A fit of bad temper: Why this unconventional definition of the Gamma distribution?

Hi, 

Could the Maplesoft staff change the definition of the GammaDistribution in package Statistics?

In the all the papers or courses in the fiels of Probability or Statistics, the shape parameter is the first parameter of this distribution, while the scale (or "rate") parameter is the second.

From versions to versions the Maple definition of this distribution switches these parameters.
It's really a pain in the ass when you want to implement algorithms that use this distribution*

Thanks for your understanding


* for specialists, the Clayton copula uses as an ingredient a sample from Gamma(1/theta, 1) where theta is an adhoc parameter.
In Maple you must code s:=Sample(GammaDistribution(1, 1/theta)).

OK, you could reply me that once I know the trick it is the simplest thing at world to do the switch myself: nevertheless it's really boring, to say the least