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The terms “trivariate reduction” or “variables in common” are used for schemes for constructing of pairs of r.v.’s that start with three (or more) r.v.’s and perform some operations on them to reduce the number to two.

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Balakrishna, N., Lai, C.D. (2009). Variables-in-Common Method. In: Continuous Bivariate Distributions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b101765_8

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