Conditional expectation preserving a distribution
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Conditional expectation preserving a distribution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-20
For a real integrable random variable , a conditional expectation with the same probability distribution as must equal almost surely. No second moment is needed. For any real , the nonnegative random variable has expected value zero, by conditioning and equality of the two absolute moments. Thus implies , implies , and implies , outside a null set. Using a countable family of rational separates any unequal real values and proves the claim. Equality of the probabilities of and also gives equality of their zero sets and hence equality of the two sign functions for every fixed .
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