Let l~≥1 be a natural number, let T>0 be a real number, let (R,R,ρ) be the observation record space with horizon T and l~ channels and channel set V={1,…,l~}, and let λ=(λυ)υ∈V be a causal intensity on R with bound λˉ and total intensity λtot. For every r∈R the map s↦λstot(r) on [0,T] is measurable with respect to the trace Borel σ-algebra (it is a section of a map measurable with respect to the product σ-algebra, and the sets whose sections at r are measurable form a σ-algebra containing the measurable rectangles) and takes values in [0,l~λˉ], so its Lebesgue integral over [0,T] is a finite real number.
The likelihood of λ is the function ℓλ:R→[0,∞) given, for r=(k,t,v) with t=(t1,…,tk) and v=(v1,…,vk), by
ℓλ(r)=(∏i=1kλtivi(r))exp(−∫[0,T]λstot(r)ds),
with the finite product over i equal to 1 when k=0, and exp the real exponential function.