Those who follow Harold Jeffreys in using improper priors together with likelihoods to determine posteriors have thought of the improper measures as probability measures of a deviant sort. This is a mistake. Probability measures are finite measures. Improper distributions generate σ-finite measures. (...)
The system of Abel equations α(ft(x)) = α(x) + λ(t), t ∈ T, is studied under the general assumption that are pairwise commuting homeomorphisms of a real interval and have no fixed points (T is an arbitrary non-empty set). A result concerning embeddability of rational iteration groups in continuous groups is proved as a simple consequence of the obtained theorems.
Marginal problem (see [Kel]) consists in finding a joint distribution whose marginals are equal to the given less-dimensional distributions. Let’s generalize the problem so that there are given not only less-dimensional distributions but also conditional probabilities. It is necessary to distinguish between objective (Kolmogorov) probability and subjective (de Finetti) approach ([Col,Sco]). In the latter, the coherence problem incorporates both probabilities and conditional probabilities in a unified...
In this paper we give an alternative proof of the construction of -dimensional ordinal sums given in Mesiar and Sempi [17], we also provide a new methodology to construct -copulas extending the patchwork methodology of Durante, Saminger-Platz and Sarkoci in [6] and [7]. Finally, we use the gluing method of Siburg and Stoimenov [20] and its generalization in Mesiar et al. [15] to give an alternative method of patchwork construction of -copulas, which can be also used in composition with our patchwork...
We discuss here several types of convergence of conditional expectations for unbounded closed convex random sets of the form where is a decreasing sequence of sub-σ-algebras and is a sequence of closed convex random sets in a separable Banach space.