Measure-Theoretic Probability

Kenneth Shum received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. His research interests include information theory and coding theory, probability, and combinatorics.

• Preface.- Beyond discrete and continuous random variables.- Probability spaces.- Lebesgue–Stieltjes measures.- Measurable functions and random variables.- Statistical independence.- Lebesgue integral and mathematical expectation.- Properties of Lebesgue integral and convergence theorems.- Product space and coupling.- Moment generating functions and characteristic functions.- Modes of convergence.- Laws of large numbers.- Techniques from Hilbert space theory.- Conditional expectation.- Levy’s continuity theorem and central limit theorem.- References.- Index.