Optimising Poisson bridge constructions for variance reduction methods
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monte Carlo Methods and Applications
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1569-3961,0929-9629
DOI: 10.1515/mcma-2021-2090