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SOME ALGEBRA FOR PEARSON TYPE VII RANDOM VARIABLES

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Abstract

The distributions of products and ratios of random variables are of interest in many areas of the sciences. In this paper, the exact distributions of the product |XY| and the ratio |X/Y| are derived when X and Y are independent Pearson type VII random variables.

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