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Conditional Monte Carlo

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Replacing a simulated quantity H by E[H∣G] preserves its expectation and reduces variance by the law of total variance. This is Rao-Blackwellization. For a random sum, conditioning on the count and all but one summand replaces an event indicator by a cumulative distribution function evaluation. The resulting estimator needs that conditional expectation to be computable.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2016 / iii / Paper 208 / 5 / d / Solution
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