Accelerated monte carlo for particle dispersion

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2459-2471

  Fitzgerald, Mark ^a   Picard, Rick ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive methods; Exponential convergence; Importance sampling; Markov chains; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244432523     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100107698     Document Type: Article

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