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Appendix: Probability and Mathematical Concepts

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If E 1, E 2,  is a denumerable collection of sets in \(\mathcal{W}\) then \(\cup _{i=1}^{\infty }E_{i} \in \mathcal{W}\).

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Rohde, C.A. (2014). Appendix: Probability and Mathematical Concepts. In: Introductory Statistical Inference with the Likelihood Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10461-4_21

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