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Non-Existence of the Mean for the Cauchy Distribution

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The standard Cauchy distribution has PDF f(x)=1π(1+x2)f(x) = \frac{1}{\pi(1 + x^2)} for x(,)x \in (-\infty, \infty).

(a) Show that E[X]E[|X|] does not exist by proving the integral 0xπ(1+x2)dx\int_0^\infty \frac{x}{\pi(1+x^2)}\,dx diverges.

(b) What does this imply about the applicability of the Law of Large Numbers to the sample mean Xˉn=1ni=1nXi\bar{X}_n = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i when XiX_i are i.i.d. Cauchy?

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