Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Expectations of sums and products

In Theorem 8.1 (expectation of a sum) and Theorem 9.2 (expectation of a product)  we proved results for a finite number of r.vs, X1,,Xn. In general, the corresponding results for a countably infinite number of r.vs are not true. You might like to think about why the proofs do not work if n is replaced by . Can you find X1,X2, such that the following is not true?
    En=1Xn=n=1EXn
Here is a hint. There do exist special cases for which the above is true, such as when n=1E|Xn| converges.

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