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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability-resit/9/a/iii/solution
Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2016 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability (resit) 9 a iii Solution by
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Let for . Since on the negative half-line, almost surely. We have almost everywhere. On a finite interval, integration by parts givesThe lower endpoint contributes zero. The stated hypothesis gives as . Taking the increasing limits of the two nonnegative integrals proves the tail-integral identityThe equality allows the value ; the boundary hypothesis alone does not force a finite expectation. In fact the formula for nonnegative also follows directly from Tonelli theorem, without that additional boundary hypothesis, by integrating against the probability density function.
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