Improved cross-entropy method for estimation

Date

2012

Authors

Chan, Chi Chun (Joshua)
Kroese, Dirk

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Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

The cross-entropy (CE) method is an adaptive importance sampling procedure that has been successfully applied to a diverse range of complicated simulation problems. However, recent research has shown that in some high-dimensional settings, the likelihood

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Keywords: Cross-entropy; Importance sampling; Kullback-Leibler divergence; Likelihood ratio degeneracy; Rare-event simulation; t copula; Variance minimization

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Statistics and Computing

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Journal article

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2037-12-31