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Como se explica en Gortaur la respuesta de una función delta no puede ser la función de
densidad de probabilidad real de una variable aleatoria.
Sin embargo sumas de funciones delta puede ser visto como el "eslabón perdido" entre
el discretos y continuos variables aleatorias / distribuciones de probabilidad, de la
siguiente manera:
https://www.i-ciencias.com/pregunta/83982/puede-una-funcion-delta-de-dirac-funcion-
densidad-de-probabilidad-de-una-variable-aleatoria
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/54197/can-a-dirac-delta-function-be-a-
probability-density-function-of-a-random-variabl
Nevertheless sums of delta functions can be viewed as the "missing link" between
discrete and continuous random variables / probability distributions, in the following
way:
μ := ∑ k∈I pk δxk ,
where δx denotes a unit point mass at the point x. In this way X now has become a real
random variable. If f: R→R is a reasonable function then the expectation E(f(X)) may
be written as an integral:
E(f(X)) = ∫ -∞−∞ f(x) dμ(x) .
As far as I know, pdf of a random variable X w.r.t Lebesgue measure μ is defined μ-a.e.
as a solution of
P{X∈A}=∫A f(x)μ(dx)
for all A∈B(R) where the last integral is Lebesgue integral. For sure you can talk about
an integration using δ function, but usually I mention that people distinguish
distributions with densities only when talking about absolute continuous distributions.
Can the Dirac delta function (or distribution) be a probability density function of a
random variable. To my knowledge, it seem to satisfy the conditions.
That depends on your definition. If you insist that you use the Lesbegue measure as a
reference measure, then the delta function is not a Radon-Nikodym density with respect
to this reference measure. But if you choose a different reference measure like the
counting measure, which assigns to every set the number of its elements, then the delta
function is a density (it is the characteristic function of the set {0}).