Oct 21, 2020 · This may seem trivial but just to confirm, as the expected value is a constant, this implies that the expectation of an expectation is just itself. It would be useful to know if this assumption is

May 27, 2011 · I understand how to define conditional expectation and how to prove that it exists. Further, I think I understand what conditional expectation means intuitively. I can also prove the …

Difference between logarithm of an expectation value and expectation value of a logarithm Ask Question Asked 14 years, 10 months ago Modified 10 years, 10 months ago

Dec 13, 2013 · 2 A clever solution to find the expected value of a geometric r.v. is those employed in this video lecture of the MITx course "Introduction to Probability: Part 1 - The Fundamentals" (by the way, …

Nov 21, 2025 · For a standard normal distribution (mean zero, standard deviation 1), the difference between two samples is also normal with mean zero, standard deviation $\sqrt2$. To get the …

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Nov 21, 2025 · For every question related to the concept of conditional expectation of a random variable with respect to a $\sigma$-algebra. It should be used with the tag (probability-theory) or (probability), …

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May 19, 2015 · How did you reformulate the density function into an arithmetico-geometric series? Otherwise, the result for the sum of geometric series is very well known and it is not unusual to …