On the use of stochastic approximation Monte Carlo for Monte Carlo integration

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-587

  Liang, Faming ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 59349103112     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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