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Law of total expectation
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2026-09-24
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2026-09-24
Taking expectation after conditioning recovers the original expectation. More generally, if
H
⊆
G
, then
E
[
E
[
X
∣
G
]
∣
H
]
=
E
[
X
∣
H
]
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