Probability theory MOC

Law of the unconscious statistician

The law of the unconscious statistician or LOTUS states the Expectation of a random function. In the discrete case,

𝔼⁡[𝑔(𝑋)]=∑𝑥∈supp(𝑋)𝑔(𝑥)ℙ(𝑋=𝑥)

and in the continuous case

𝔼⁡[𝑔(𝑋)]=∫∞−∞𝑔(𝑥)𝑑ℙ(𝑋=𝑥)=∫∞−∞𝑔(𝑥)𝑓𝑋(𝑥)𝑑𝑥


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