Continous Versions of Regular Conditional Distributions
Open Access
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Probability
- Vol. 7 (1) , 159-165
- https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176995158
Abstract
Let $X$ and $Y$ be random variables and assume $X$ has a density $f_X(x)$. An inversion theorem for the conditional expectation $E(Y\mid X = x)$ is derived which generalizes and simplifies that of Yeh. As an immediate corollary an almost-sure version of Bartlett's formula for the conditional characteristic function of $Y$ given $X = x$ is obtained. This result is applied to show the existence under regularity conditions of a version of the regular conditional distribution $P\{dy\mid X = x\}$ which is well defined for those values of $x$ such that $f_X(x) \neq 0$.
Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: