New Importance Sampling Densities

To compute the expectation of a function with respect to a multivariate distribution naive Monte Carlo is often not feasible. In such cases importance sampling leads to better estimates than the rejection method. A new importance sampling distribution, the product of one-dimensional table mountain d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hörmann, Wolfgang
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Abt. f. Angewandte Statistik u. Datenverarbeitung, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 2005
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/1066/1/document.pdf