Continuous Weights
In the continuous setting, a weight is a positive measure such as on some domain ,which is typically a subset of a Euclidean space, for instance could be an interval . Here is Lebesgue measure and is a non-negative measurable function. In this context, the weight function is sometimes referred to as a density.
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