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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics III 4 a ii Solution by
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For an integrable random variable , the law of total expectation for the partition of a sample space isParts of zero probability contribute zero and need no definition of . To see the identity, write and use linearity of expectation; integrability justifies the countable sum since .
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