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Tail-sum formula for expectation
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Borel-Cantelli lemmas
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For
a
nonnegative
random variable
X
,
Tonelli theorem
gives
E
[
X
]
=
∫
0
∞
P
(
X
>
t
)
d
t
.
(1)
Consequently, for each
a
>
0
,
E
[
X
]
=
∞
exactly when
∑
n
≥
1
P
(
X
>
an
)
=
∞
; compare the
integral
on successive intervals of
length
a
.
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