The distribution of the product of two triangular random variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2821-2826

  Glickman, Theodore S ^a   Xu, Feng ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 53249127509     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.03.031     Document Type: Article

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