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The major theorems of probability theory fall into a natural dichotomythose which are analytic in character and those which are measure-theoretic. In the latter category are zero—one laws, the Borel—Cantelli lemma, strong laws oflarge numbers, and indeed any result which requires the apparatus of a probability space.
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Chow, Y.S., Teicher, H. (1988). Binomial Random Variables. In: Probability Theory. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0504-0_2
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