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A strong law of large numbers for capacities. (English) Zbl 1074.60041

Summary: We consider a totally monotone capacity on a Polish space and a sequence of bounded p.i.i.d. random variables. We show that, on a full set, any cluster point of empirical averages lies between the lower and the upper Choquet integrals of the random variables, provided either the random variables or the capacity are continuous.

MSC:

60F15 Strong limit theorems
28A12 Contents, measures, outer measures, capacities
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