# The pdf of the ratio of two lognormal distributions [closed]

What is the pdf of the ratio of two independent lognormal distributions? Why is $$log(X)$$ normal when $$X$$ is lognormal?

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Let $$X,Y$$ be independent log-normal random variables. Then by definition, $$\log X$$ and $$\log Y$$ are normally distributed.
Let $$Z= \frac{X}{Y}$$ be their ratio. Then clearly we have
$$\log Z = \log \left( \frac{X}{Y} \right) = \log X - \log Y$$
It follows that $$\log Z$$ is normally distributed, being the difference of two independent normally distributed random variables, and hence $$Z = \frac{X}{Y}$$ is log-normal.