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Bernoulli likelihood ratio and change of measure
Example
Let , , and let be counting measure. Set and define the experiment's probability measures by
Both are dominated by . Their likelihood-ratio density is and .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC (for the linked general theorem), the two-point measurable space, counting measure, and probability mass assignments in the example.
Sigma-algebras: a sigma-algebra is an algebra of subsets closed under countable unions; the full power set of is such an algebra.
Measurable spaces and measurable sets: a measurable space is a set with a sigma-algebra.
Counting measure on an arbitrary set, Counting measure is a measure, and Finite, sigma-finite, and semifinite measures: counting measure assigns mass to each singleton and is a measure; here its total mass is , so it is finite and sigma-finite.
Probability measures and probability spaces: a measure of total mass is a probability measure.
Statistical experiments: an experiment is a parameter-indexed family of probability measures on one measurable sample space.
Dominated statistical experiments: domination means each sampling law is absolutely continuous with respect to the supplied sigma-finite positive measure.
Likelihood densities: for a fixed observation , likelihood is the selected density value .
Likelihood ratio as a Radon–Nikodym derivative: for , the full likelihood-ratio class is .
Likelihood-ratio change of measure: when , a nonnegative likelihood-ratio representative satisfies for every nonnegative measurable and every -integrable real .
The Axiom of Choice: AC states that every family of nonempty sets has a choice function; the finite example itself uses explicit mass functions.
Verification
Given: , the four masses above, and counting measure .
The full power set is a sigma-algebra by [F1], so [F2] gives a measurable space. The counting measure is finite with by [F3], hence sigma-finite. Each displayed mass is nonnegative and the two masses for each sum to . For any disjoint sequence of events, each point belongs to at most one event, so the mass formula is countably additive; each is therefore a probability measure by [F4]. Since counting measure assigns positive mass to every nonempty subset, , and the family is a dominated experiment by [F5]–[F6].
Put for . For every , , so these are density representatives as in [F7]. Since is positive at both points, ; define . For every , ; thus represents the likelihood-ratio derivative [F8], with and .
For any real-valued on , . Thus the change-of-measure identity holds directly, in agreement with [A1, F9].
Depends on
- Sigma-algebras
- Measurable spaces and measurable sets
- Measures on sigma-algebras
- Probability measures and probability spaces
- Counting measure on an arbitrary set
- Counting measure is a measure
- Finite, sigma-finite, and semifinite measures
- Statistical experiments
- Dominated statistical experiments
- Likelihood densities
- Likelihood ratio as a Radon–Nikodym derivative
- Likelihood-ratio change of measure
- The Axiom of Choice
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