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In this chapter the authors consider three multiple products of independent Beta random variables which are shown to have equivalent representations as the exponential of sums of independent integer Gamma r.v.’s, and as such have finite form representations for their distributions.
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Coelho, C.A., Arnold, B.C. (2019). Multiple Products of Independent Beta Random Variables with Finite Form Representations for Their Distributions. In: Finite Form Representations for Meijer G and Fox H Functions. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28790-0_3
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