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I'm working on some statistics project and am not getting further because of some stupid prediction that doesn't want to be 0. That's why I was wondering if maybe the following holds: Suppose we have a random variable X and an unknown constant m. Is then $$E\left(X|X+m\right)=E(X)?$$ That would help a lot. I thought it might hold because m is unknown and thus knowing X+m doesn't say anything about X, so one could consider X and X+m as being independent?

Thanks a lot!

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    I think you answered your own question.2012-07-01
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    Is $m$ a random variable? If not, $E[X|X+m] = X$, not $E[X]$. If $m$ is a random variable, then the answer depends on the distribution of $(X,m)$.2012-07-01
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    @Memming: No. $ $2012-07-01
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    If m is a constant and conditioning on X+m knowing both X and m would lead to E[X|X+m]=X But if you only know X+m and not X and m individually then it is not clear what E[X|X+m] would be but it would not be E{X] because X and X+m are highly dependent.2012-07-01
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    Pity. Thank you guys!2012-07-02

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