Abstract
Motivated by an application in change point analysis, we derive a closed form for the density function of the sum of n independent, non-identically distributed, uniform random variables.
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Sadooghi-Alvandi, S.M., Nematollahi, A.R. & Habibi, R. On the distribution of the sum of independent uniform random variables. Stat Papers 50, 171–175 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-007-0049-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-007-0049-4