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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 33 5 a i Solution by
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For a nonnegative random variable, . Tonelli theorem permits interchanging expectation and this nonnegative integral, giving the tail integral formula for moments:The equality also holds when the mean is infinite. Thus mean completion time is the total area under the survival function, while a restricted mean survival time integrates only to a specified follow-up horizon.
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