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Variance reduction: conditional <strong>Monte</strong> Carlo<br />

Assume we have an auxiliary r.v. C, correlated with X, such that<br />

E(X |C) is available analytically and C is easy to sample.<br />

Since E[E(X |C)] = µ, the r.v. E(X |C) is an unbiased estimator<br />

<strong>of</strong> µ.<br />

From<br />

σ 2 = V(X) = V[E(X |C)] + E[V(X |C)],<br />

we get<br />

V[E(X |C)] = σ 2 − E[V(X |C)] ≤ σ 2<br />

because V(X |C) and thus E[V(X |C)] are non negative.<br />

The corresponding estimator is<br />

˜X n = 1 n<br />

n∑<br />

E(X |C i ).<br />

i=1<br />

G. Rubino (INRIA) <strong>Monte</strong> Carlo DEPEND 2010 23 / 72

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