About Boole-Bonferroni inequality

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  • Is there a version of the Boole-Bonferroni inequality with expectations of random variables?

  • Is the only way the Boole-Bonferroni inequality can be satisfied is that no two of the events intersect? (And what is the analogous statement in an expectation version of the Boole-Bonferroni inequality)

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(i) You can turn the probability of an event into the expectation of an indicator function

(ii) For equality you want the probabilities of the intersections to be $0$