Abstract
The Gumbel and the Laplace distributions are perhaps two of the most applied distributions
in engineering. Motivated by engineering issues, the exact distribution of the
quotient
Open Access
Quotient of Laplace and Gumbel random variables
Received05 Jul 2005
Revised13 Dec 2005
Accepted13 Mar 2006
Published03 May 2006
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