Expected value of a joint bound distribution?

[Ziv Lieberman]

Hello all,

I'm interested in employing joint bound distributions for node priors, using unequal tail probabilities. (The motivation is that I have single fossil occurrences for taxa, so I would like to specify equal prior probability between the minimum and maximum stratum age, with a very small probability of violating the minimum, and a much larger probability of violating the maximum).

Is there a way to calculate an expected value for the joint bounds distribution, as calculated in the mcmc3r package with dB?

Thank you!

-Ziv