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Does convergence of Radon transforms of a sequence of probability distributions implies convergence of the distributions themselves?

Let $P_1,P_2,\ldots $ be a sequence of absolutely continuous probability measures on $\mathbb R^n$, and let $f_j:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R$ be their PDFs. Assume that $\operatorname{E}P_j = 0$ and $\...
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Transforming two smooth densities to the same density

I am looking for an example of the following: Find a bijective, differentiable function $f$ and continuous probability density functions $q_1\ne q_2$ such that $f_*q_1=p=f_*q_2$, where $f_*$ is the ...
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Infimum of Fourier transform of singular measure

Let $\mu$ be a finite non negative singular measure on $\mathbf{R}^d$. I would like to know if there exists some result on the infimum of the absolute value of its Fourier Transform $$\hat{\mu}(t)=\...
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Can we show equivalence of two distributions based on their statistics?

Let $p,q$ be two distributions on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Let $f:\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$. Under what conditions does $\mathbb{E}_{x\sim p}f(x,z)=\mathbb{E}_{x\sim q}f(x,z)\ \...
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Convergence of measurable functions in a locally compact space

Set $(X,\mathcal{B})$ a measurable space. If $f:X\rightarrow[0,\infty)$ is a measurable function then exists a sequence of simple functions $\{s_n\}_{n\geq1}$ such that $$0\leq s_1 \leq s_2\leq \...
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Weak convergence of measures on dense sets

We are given a complete (separable) metric space $X$ and a dense subset $D\subset X$. Consider a sequence of continuous functions $f_n\colon X\to \mathbb R$ such that $$\int\limits_D f_n \, {\rm d}\mu\...
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Closedness of a set of measures, where conditional marginals are in closed $\varepsilon$-ball w.r.t. Wasserstein distance

Let $(E,d)$ be a bounded polish space (separable, complete metric space satisfying $\sup_{x,y\in E} d(x,y) < \infty$). By $\mathcal{P}(E)$ we denote the space of Borel probability measures on $E$ ...
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Diffuse measure space as a product of $[0;1]$ and another diffuse measure space

The title speaks of itself. How far is an arbitrary finite diffuse measure space from being almost isomorphic to a product of $[0;1]$ with another diffuse measure space? What would be reasonable ...
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What is vague convergence and what does it accomplish?

For convenience, let's say that I have a locally compact Hausdorff space $X$ and am concerned with probability measures on its Borel $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal{B}(X)$. Natural vector spaces to ...
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Convergence of Radon Nikodym derivatives

I apologise in advance if my question is too basic. Some notation: $(X,\cal{X})$ denotes a measurable metric space where $X$ is a metric space and $\cal{X}$ is the associated Borel sigma algebra. ...
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textbook of measure theory abstracted as functional analysis [closed]

Background I have studied intro functional analysis, probability theory based on measures, and some elementary connection between them e.g. that weak conversion of random variables correspond to weak*...
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Inversion of Fourier transform of a multivariate gamma distribution in polar form?

Let $\mathbb{S}^{N-1}$ be the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^N$ under the Euclidean norm $||\cdot||$. Let $\mu$ be an infinitely divisible Borel measure. If there exists a finite measure $\alpha$ on $\...
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Weak convergence in measure for negligible sets.

Let $X$ be a Polish space and $(P_n)$ a sequence of Borel probabilities which converges weakly in measure to a Borel probability $P$. By this i mean that for any $f\in C_b(X)$ which is continuous and ...
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If two probability distributions have the same weak limit and one of them satisfies Large Deviation Principle, what can we say about the other?

If the probability distribution function of two sequences of random variables have the same weak limit and one of the sequences satisfies a Large deviation principle, then does it imply that the other ...
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Can singular measures be viewed as vanishing distributions? (Answer No!)

Hello, Here is my original question: let $\mu$ be a singular measure with respect to the Lebesgue's measure on $R$. Is it true that $\int \psi \mu(d x)=0$ for any test function $\psi\in C_c^\infty(R)$...
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