On Optimizing Importance Sampling Simulations

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1987, Pages 1558-1563

  Parhi, Keshab K ^a   Berkowitz, Raymond S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS - MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL DETECTION - SAMPLING;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING SIMULATIONS; MTI RADAR; RADAR DETECTION; TAIL PROBABILITIES;

RADAR;

EID: 0023531247     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCS.1987.1086093     Document Type: Article

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