• DocumentCode
    3349359
  • Title

    Efficiency improvement and variance reduction

  • Author

    L´Ecuyer, Pierre

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. d´´Inf. et de Recherche Oper., Montreal Univ., Que., Canada
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    11-14 Dec. 1994
  • Firstpage
    122
  • Lastpage
    132
  • Abstract
    Gives an overview of the main techniques for improving the statistical efficiency of simulation estimators. Efficiency improvement is typically (but not always) achieved through variance reduction. We discuss methods such as common random numbers, antithetic variates, control variates, importance sampling, conditional Monte Carlo, stratified sampling, and some others, as well as the combination of certain of those methods. We also survey the recent literature on this topic.
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; estimation theory; simulation; statistics; antithetic variates; common random numbers; conditional Monte Carlo methods; control variates; efficiency improvement; importance sampling; simulation estimators; statistical efficiency; stratified sampling; variance reduction; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Costs; H infinity control; Mean square error methods; Monte Carlo methods; Random variables; Sampling methods; Stochastic processes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference Proceedings, 1994. Winter
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2109-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.1994.717089
  • Filename
    717089