Optimal normal shift for normal-tail importance sampling

ID: optimal-normal-shift-for-normal-tail-importance-sampling

To estimate for a standard normal variable using proposal , the weighted indicator has second moment . Differentiating it at a minimum gives the displayed equation. Since , the minimizing shift is half the target conditional mean above the shifted threshold. The resulting estimator remains unbiased with the exact likelihood-ratio weight.

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