Expectation of Non-Negative Random Variable is Non-Negative/Continuous

Theorem

Let $X$ be a continuous random variable.

Let $\map \Pr {X \ge 0} = 1$.


Then:

$\expect X \ge 0$

where $\expect X$ denotes the expectation of $X$.


Proof


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