M-convolutions of products and ratios, statistical distributions and fractional calculus
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Abstract
Abstract It is shown that Mellin convolutions of products and ratios in the real scalar variable case can be considered as densities of products and ratios of two independently distributed real scalar positive random variables. It is also shown that these are also connected to Krätzel integrals and to the Krätzel transform in applied analysis, to reaction-rate probability integrals in astrophysics and to other related aspects when the random variables have gamma or generalized gamma densities, and to fractional calculus when one of the variables has a type-1 beta density and the other variable has an arbitrary density. Matrix-variate analogues are also discussed. In the matrix-variate case, the M-convolutions introduced by the author are shown to be directly connected to densities of products and ratios of statistically independently distributed positive definite matrix random variables in the real case and to Hermitian positive definite matrices in the complex domain. These M-convolutions reduce to Mellin convolutions in the scalar variable case.
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