New results in importance sampling

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 917-925

  Gerlach, Karl ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOFF IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD; LARGE DEVIATION THEORY; RANDOM VARIABLES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0033155641     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.784061     Document Type: Article

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