Bias point selection in the importance sampling Monte Carlo simulation of systems

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 152-159

  Bucklew, James A ^a   Gubner, John A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Importance sampling; Monte Carlo; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0037230268     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2002.806549     Document Type: Article

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