Purification, saturation and the exact law of large numbers

Economic Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-545

  Wang, Jianwei ^a   Zhang, Yongchao ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exact law of large numbers; Fubini extension; Incomplete information; Purification; Saturated probability space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864397928     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-010-0593-3     Document Type: Article

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