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An extension of a lemma of Wald

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

H. Robbins  and
E. Samuel
H. Robbins
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
E. Samuel
Affiliation:
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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We define a natural extension of the concept of expectation of a random variable y as follows: M(y) = a if there exists a constant − ∞ ≦ a ≦ ∞ such that if y1, y2, … is a sequence of independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with the common distribution of y then

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , June 1966 , pp. 272 - 273
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Copyright © Sheffield: Applied Probability Trust 

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