An Elementary Proof of the General Poincaré Formula for λ-additive Measures

Abstract

In a previous paper of ours [4], we presented the general formula for lambda-additive measure of union of n sets and gave a proof of it. That proof is based on the fact that the lambda-additive measure is representable. In this study, a novel and elementary proof of the formula for lambda-additive measure of the union of n sets is presented. Here, it is also demonstrated that, using elementary techniques, the well-known Poincare formula of probability theory is just a limit case of our general formula.