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Counterexamples related to the main results follow, along with motivation for questions and counterstatements that range in difficulty. Markov processes a random process is a markov process if the future of the process given the present is independent of the past. Available texts in probability and measure theory and linear spaces b. Counterexamples in probability and statistics joseph p. Continuity counterexamples for probability measures.
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