# From distribution to Measure

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• From distribution function to probability measure

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Let $F:R\to [0,1]$ be a continuous from the right function on
$R$, which satisfies the following conditions: $$\lim_{x \to -\infty}F(x)=0~\&~\lim_{x \to +\infty}F(x)=1.$$
We suppose that $F(-\infty)=0$ and $F(+\infty)=1$.

We set $\Omega=R \cup \{+\infty\}$.

Let ${\cal{A}}$ denote a class of all subsets of $\Omega$, which are
represented by the union of finite number of ”semi-closed from the right
intervals” of the form $(a, b]$, i.e.,
$${\cal{A}}=\{ A|A=\sum_{i=1}^n(a_i,b_i]\},$$
where $-\infty \le a_i < b_i \le \infty (1 \le i \le n).$

It is easy to show that ${\cal{A}}$ is an algebra of subsets of
$\Omega$.

We set $$P(A) = P(\sum_{i=1}^n(a_i, b_i])) = \sum_{i=1}^n P((a_i, b_i])=\sum_{i=1}^n F(b_i)-F(a_i).$$

One can easily demonstrate that the real-valued function $P$ is a
probability defined on ${\cal{A}}$ . Using Charatheodory well known theorem about extension of the probability from the algebra to the minimal sigma-algebra, we deduce
that there exists a unique probability measure $\overline{P}$ on
$\sigma({\cal{A}})$ which is an extension of $P$. Let $P_F$ denotes the restriction of the $\overline{P}$ to the $\sigma$-algebra $R \cap \sigma({\cal{A}})$.The class
$R \cap \sigma({\cal{A}})$ coincides with Borel $\sigma$-algebra of
subsets of the real axis ${\bf R}$ which is denoted by ${\cal{B}}({\bf R})$. A real-valued function $P_F$ is called a probability Borel measure on ${\bf R}$ defined by the
distribution function $F$.

You easily defined $P_X$ on the compact set, so extend it as an inner regular measure: For any $A\in \mathcal B(\mathbb R^*)$,

$$P_X(A) = \sup \{ P_X(K) \, : \, \text{compact } K\subset A \}\,.$$

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