Probability – Joint PDF of Two Random Variables and Their Sum

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What is the joint PDF of two uniformly distributed random variables and their sum?

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I will try to address the question you posed in the comments, namely:

Given 3 independent random variables $U$, $V$ and $W$ uniformly distributed on $(0,1)$, find the joint probability distribution function of $X=U+V$ and $Y=U+W$.

Gives $0<x<2$ and $0<y<2$, we first compute $F_{X,Y}(x,y)$: $$\begin{eqnarray} F_{X,Y}(x,y) &=& \mathbb{P}\left(X \leqslant x, Y \leqslant y\right) = \mathbb{P}\left(U+V \leqslant x, U+W \leqslant y\right) = \mathbb{E}\left(\mathbb{P}\left(U+V \leqslant x, U+W \leqslant y|U\right)\right)\\ &=& \mathbb{E}\left(F_V(x-U)F_W(y-U)\right) = \mathbb{E}\left(\min(1, \max(x-U,0))\min(1, \max(y-U,0))\right) \end{eqnarray} $$ The pdf, being a derivative of the cdf, will then read: $$ f_{X,Y}(x,y) = \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \frac{\partial}{\partial y} F_{X,Y}(x,y) = \mathbb{E}\left( [1+U>x>U] [1+U > y>U] \right) = \mathbb{P}\left(U < x < 1+U \land U < y<1+U\right) $$ The evaluation of the latter expectation is straightforward but tedious, so I asked Mathematica for help: enter image description here