stats question....

[theNEOone]

what's the point of defining a borel field? yeah it's real nice, but what purpose does it serve?



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[thirtythree]

a bit more advanced than ap stats I'm guessing...

 

[theNEOone]

Originally posted by: Deslocke
a bit more advanced than ap stats I'm guessing...

hmm, i have no idea - i never took stats in high school. it's actually econometrics, but we do pure probability and stats the first half of the class.



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[aux]

Originally posted by: theNEOone
what's the point of defining a borel field? yeah it's real nice, but what purpose does it serve?



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Because in some cases a measure (or probability measure) can not be defined on all subsets of a particular set; however it can be consistently defined on a Borel field.

Edit: and this is not a stats question, it's a measure theoretical (or probability) question

 

[theNEOone]

can you explain that differently, perhaps illustrating w/ an example or two?



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