Oct 21, 2020 · This may seem trivial but just to confirm, as the expected value is a constant, this implies that the expectation of an expectation is just itself. It would be useful to know if this assumption is

Difference between logarithm of an expectation value and expectation value of a logarithm Ask Question Asked 14 years, 11 months ago Modified 10 years, 11 months ago

2 A clever solution to find the expected value of a geometric r.v. is those employed in this video lecture of the MITx course "Introduction to Probability: Part 1 - The Fundamentals" (by the way, an extremely …

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Dec 21, 2025 · For every question related to the concept of conditional expectation of a random variable with respect to a $\sigma$-algebra. It should be used with the tag (probability-theory) or (probability), …

Average is essentially expected value. Except I tend to use (IMHO ) average for simple average I.e expected value of X say, whilst expected value is usually a function. But your right, for example …

May 27, 2011 · I understand how to define conditional expectation and how to prove that it exists. Further, I think I understand what conditional expectation means intuitively. I can also prove the …

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Dec 22, 2020 · I have an equation that requires taking the natural log of a random variable. When trying to figure out how to evaluate the expression, I came across this paper: Y. W. Teh, D. Newman and …