Since is an event, we can take its probability. When the meaning is clear, we use the syntactic reduction
For the limit at infinity, define . Then , because every real value is at most some integer . By continuity of probability,
Since is non-decreasing and , integer values determine the monotone function limit at infinity gives .For the limit at negative infinity, define . Then : the events are decreasing, and no real number is less than or equal to for every . By continuity of probability and probability of the impossible event,
Since is non-decreasing and , this implies .Finally, fix and define . Then : the events are decreasing, and lies in every exactly when . By continuity of probability,
Since is non-decreasing, the values with are squeezed between and values of the form with . Hence , so is right-continuous.By set difference decomposition, is the disjoint union of and . Also,
because exactly when and it is not true that , which is the same as . Since , intersection with a superset is itself gives .Therefore, by probability of set difference,
Note that when we compose a measurable real-valued function with a random variable, we obtain a new random variable.
By the definition of random variable function composition and inverse image of a composition,
and Because and are independent random variables and , are Borel sets, we have Therefore and are independent by the definition of independent random variables.Note that above simply says that given any the events and
- Determine
- Obtain the probabilities
- Determine the conditional probability
We start by determining , firstly we know that therefore we deduce that