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Refinement Conditions on Operations in Sample Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert J. Weaver
Robert J. Weaver*
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Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
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The recent study of operational statistics (see [2; 4; 5; 10 ; 11 ; 12 ; 13 ; 14 ; 15 ; 16]) describes a generalized sample space which represents the set of all possible outcomes of a collection of coherently related operations (experiments). This approach to probability generalizes the classical notion of a sample space due to A. N. Kolmogorov [8], and it gives the concept somewhat wider applicability. For instance in [4] and [14], D. J. Foulis and C. H. Randall set out the start of a program wherein a generalized sample space (hereafter called a GSS) and its affiliated partially ordered set of generalized propositions could be a framework within which a genuinely operational interpretation of the so called “logic” of quantum mechanical systems may be found.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1975 , pp. 991 - 999
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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