A nonasymptotic theorem for unnormalized Feynman-Kac particle models

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 629-649

  Cerou F ^a   Del Moral, P ^b   Guyader, A ^c  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ RENNES 2   (France)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Gibbs measures; Feynman Kac semigroups; Genetic algorithms; Interacting particle systems; Monte Carlo models; Nonasymptotic estimates; Rare events

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960182481     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AIHP358     Document Type: Article

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