Thursday, 2 October 2014

measure theory - Intuition behind expected value formula?

I just learned the expected value formula for a positive random variable: E[X]=∫∞0P(X>x)dx.




I can follow the proof but I'm a little unclear as to what the intuition behind this formula is. Can someone formulate it in a more intuitive manner?

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