On large deviations and design of efficient importance sampling algorithms

This thesis consists of four papers, presented in Chapters 2-5, on the topics large deviations and stochastic simulation, particularly importance sampling. The four papers make theoretical contributions to the development of a new approach for analyzing efficiency of importance sampling algorithms b...

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Main Author: Nyquist, Pierre
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: KTH, Matematisk statistik 2014
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144423
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