The distribution of the product of powers of independent uniform random variables - A simple but useful tool to address and better understand the structure of some distributions

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-36

  Arnold, Barry C ^a   Coelho, Carlos A ^b   Marques, Filipe J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Equality of mean vectors; Exponentiated Generalized Integer Gamma distribution; Generalized Integer Gamma distribution; Product of independent Beta random variables; Testing circularity; Testing equality of mean vectors and circularity; Wilks Lambda statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867736231     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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