November 2012
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5.2 EXPECTATION AND INTEGRATION
Consider first the abstract probability space
, and let X be a random variable that maps outcomes in Ω to
.
Definition: Expectation The expectation of random variable X is
which is the Lebesgue integral of function
and P is the probability measure for the event space
.
The Lebesgue integral is briefly described in Appendix D. All outcomes that map from Ω to
are weighted by the probability measure P above to give the expectation. We can also write
entirely in terms of the random variable with probability space
as follows:
where FX(x) is the cumulative ...
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