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| Sep 23, 2016 at 15:41 | comment | added | Robert Israel | Look at the articles in any probability journal, especially an "applied" one. Sample spaces will be mentioned rarely. Everything is about random variables and their distributions. | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 8:05 | comment | added | Filippo Alberto Edoardo | This is more or less what I keep on reading, but do you have an example? Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen's one, for instance, is nice although intricate. Also, Fremlin seems to say that "it is preferable often to forget $\Omega$ altogether, but is there a proper mathematical way of doing so? | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 7:02 | history | answered | Robert Israel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |