Probability mass functions #
This file is about probability mass functions or discrete probability measures:
a function α → ℝ≥0∞ such that the values have (infinite) sum 1.
Construction of monadic pure and bind is found in ProbabilityMassFunction/Monad.lean,
other constructions of PMFs are found in ProbabilityMassFunction/Constructions.lean.
Given p : PMF α, PMF.toOuterMeasure constructs an OuterMeasure on α,
by assigning each set the sum of the probabilities of each of its elements.
Under this outer measure, every set is Carathéodory-measurable,
so we can further extend this to a Measure on α, see PMF.toMeasure.
PMF.toMeasure.isProbabilityMeasure shows this associated measure is a probability measure.
Conversely, given a probability measure μ on a measurable space α with all singleton sets
measurable, μ.toPMF constructs a PMF on α, setting the probability mass of a point x
to be the measure of the singleton set {x}.
Tags #
probability mass function, discrete probability measure
The support of a PMF is the set where it is nonzero.
Equations
- p.support = Function.support ⇑p
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Construct an OuterMeasure from a PMF, by assigning measure to each set s : Set α equal
to the sum of p x for each x ∈ α.
Equations
- p.toOuterMeasure = MeasureTheory.OuterMeasure.sum fun (x : α) => p x • MeasureTheory.OuterMeasure.dirac x
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Since every set is Carathéodory-measurable under PMF.toOuterMeasure,
we can further extend this OuterMeasure to a Measure on α.
Equations
- p.toMeasure = p.toOuterMeasure.toMeasure ⋯
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Given that α is a countable, measurable space with all singleton sets measurable,
we can convert any probability measure into a PMF, where the mass of a point
is the measure of the singleton set under the original measure.
Equations
- μ.toPMF = ⟨fun (x : α) => μ {x}, ⋯⟩
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The measure associated to a PMF by toMeasure is a probability measure.
Equations
- ⋯ = ⋯