Generalized zero-variance solutions and intelligent random numbers

  • Authors:
  • Thomas E. Booth

  • Affiliations:
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

  • Venue:
  • WSC '87 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

It is shown that a zero-variance solution exists for any linear Monte Carlo problem and that this solution can be obtained by sampling the random numbers proportional to the expected score subsequently produced by using these random numbers in the random walk.