1 Introduction to reducing variance in Monte Carlo simulations

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“copy” that we wish to simulate from (instead of the X i).We let Y = X 1+X 2 2 denote a generic Y i.The problem of estimation can be re-cast as “we are trying to estimate µ = E(Y)”.

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