Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 36 4 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Let where , and set it to zero on the g-null set where . The domination assumption makes there and gives . Integrating it also gives . For iid proposals , the importance sampling estimator isCauchy-Schwarz inequality under gives . Direct integration proves unbiasedness, . MoreoverThusThe iid central limit theorem applies to these finite-variance weighted observations:If the variance is zero, this denotes the point mass at zero. This is the bounded-weight importance-sampling moment bound.