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On the existence of the expectation of randomly stopped sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Ester Samuel*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Extract

Let a+ = a if a > 0, a+ = 0 otherwise, and a = (– a)+.

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Short Communications
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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