The law of large numbers with a continuum of i.i.d. random variables (Q1060768)

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The law of large numbers with a continuum of i.i.d. random variables
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    The law of large numbers with a continuum of i.i.d. random variables (English)
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    There are two problems with the common argument that a continuum of independent and identically distributed random variables sum to a nonrandom quantity in ''large economies''. First, it may be unintelligible in that it may call for the measure of a nonmeasurable set. However, there is a probability measure, consistent with the finite-dimensional distributions, which assigns zero measure to the set of realizations having that difficulty. A second difficulty is that the ''law of large numbers'' may not hold even when there is no measurability problem.
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    law of large numbers
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    continuum of independent and identically distributed random variables
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