Friday, 2 February 2018

With scant information, how to prove this probability limit tends to zero?



Given X a nonnegative r.v. with E(|X|α)<, then how to prove that
lim
If X has a PDF, then it seems this can be proved using some integration by parts. But now there is nothing mentioned about the regularity of its CDF. So how shall I proceed?



Best regards.


Answer




You have as x\rightarrow \infty:
x^\alpha P(|X|>x) \leq E(|X|^\alpha 1_{|X|>x}) \rightarrow 0
by dominated convergence.


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