Weighted average importance sampling and defensive mixture distributions

Technometrics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 185-194

  Hesterberg, Tim ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Simulation; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649424388     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.1995.10484303     Document Type: Article

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