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Individual-level randomness in a nonatomic population

Probability 2019-04-02 v1

Abstract

This paper provides a construction of an uncountable family of i.i.d. random vectors, indexed by the points of a nonatomic measure space, such that (a) a sample is a measurable function from the index space, and (b) an idealization of the Glivenko-Cantelli theorem holds exactly with respect to the measure on that space. That is, samples possess a.s. the distribution from which they are drawn. Moreover, any subspace of the index space with positive measure inherits the same property. This homogeneity property is important for applications of the construction in economics.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00849,
  title  = {Individual-level randomness in a nonatomic population},
  author = {Edward J. Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00849},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages

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