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In my survival analysis course we use integrals that integrate with respect to some finite variation process. One of which is the counting process, which is straight forward to understand since you just sum over jump times. But I have no clue what it means to integrate with respect to a martingale? So something like(Lebesgue-Stieltjes notation):

$$\int_0^Tf(t)dM(t)$$

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If $X:\Omega\times\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ is a stochastic process which is a semimartingale (that is one can write X as the sum of a local martingale starting at zero and a process of finite variation; so every martingale starting at zero is a semimartingale), the stochastic integral $$\int_0^Tf(t)dX(t)$$ (sometimes also written as $(f\dot\ X)_T$) is first defined for simple predictable processes $f$ of the form $f=1_{\{(\omega,t)|r

If $X$ is a process of finite variation (hence it is a semimartingale), then the stochastic integral $(f\dot\ X)_T$ is just the Lebesgue–Stieltjes-integral.

Under certain conditions, if $(X_t)_{t\geq 0}$ is a martingale, then also $((f\dot\ X)_T)_{T\geq 0}=(\int_0^Tf(t)X_t)_{T\geq 0}$ is a martingale.

To understand the process of defining the stochastic integral, i suggest to look it up in any stochastic calculus text book.