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Finite probability spaces are exactly finite full-power-set probability spaces

Statement

Let Ω be a finite set.

  1. If (Ω,w) is a finite probability space in the sense of Finite probability spaces, outcome weights, events, and event probabilities, then Pw(A):=ωAw(ω)(AΩ) is a probability measure on (Ω,P(Ω)).
  2. Conversely, if P is a probability measure on (Ω,P(Ω)), then w(ω):=P({ω})(ωΩ) makes (Ω,w) a finite probability space and P(A)=ωAw(ω)(AΩ).

These two constructions are inverse to each other. In particular, zero-weight outcomes remain genuine outcomes in both descriptions.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A finite set Ω.

[L1]

A finite probability space is a finite set with nonnegative weights summing to 1, every subset is an event, and event probabilities are the corresponding sub-weight sums (Finite probability spaces, outcome weights, events, and event probabilities).

[L2]

A probability measure is a measure of total mass 1 (Probability measures and probability spaces).

[L3]

On a finite sigma-algebra, the atoms partition the space, every measurable set is the union of the atoms it contains, and a measure is the sum of the atom masses over those atoms (A measure on a finite sigma-algebra is a finite weighted sum over its atoms).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

If (Ω,w) is a finite probability space, then [L1] already states that every subset of Ω is an event and that AωAw(ω) is its probability. Therefore Pw is a probability measure on (Ω,P(Ω)) by [L2].

L1L2
1.2

Conversely, let P be a probability measure on (Ω,P(Ω)) and put w(ω)=P({ω}). Each singleton is an atom of the full power-set sigma-algebra, and every AΩ is the union of the singletons it contains. Thus [L3] gives P(A)=ωAP({ω})=ωAw(ω). Taking A=Ω yields ωΩw(ω)=P(Ω)=1, and nonnegativity of w comes from the measure axioms inside [L2]. So (Ω,w) is a finite probability space.

L2L3
2.1

Step 1.1 constructs a full-power-set probability measure from any finite weight model, and step 1.2 recovers exactly those singleton weights from any full-power-set probability measure. Hence the two descriptions are equivalent, including the boundary case of outcomes with weight 0.

step 1.1step 1.2

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