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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 32 6 a Solution by
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A Poisson random measure with intensity the sigma-finite measure is a random nonnegative integer-valued measure such that, for each outcome outside a single null set, is countably additive, and for each measurable , is a measurable random variable. For every measurable with ,and for every finite collection of pairwise disjoint finite-intensity measurable sets, their counts are independent random variables. These are integer-valued counts, with possible value infinity on infinite-intensity sets. In particular implies almost surely. The intensity identity is , also in the extended sense.
For completeness, choose an increasing finite-intensity exhaustion . Each is finite almost surely, simultaneously for all , so is a sigma-finite measure almost surely. If , then , and for any fixed integer ,Hence almost surely. Independence for counts on arbitrary disjoint measurable sets follows by this exhaustion; an infinite count is a constant extended value. This convention completes the definition on a general measurable space, not just on bounded subsets of Euclidean space.
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