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    the risk of a nuclear power plant failure. Monte Carlo methods are often implemented using computer simulations, and they can provide approximate solutions...
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  • In statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a class of algorithms used to draw samples from a probability distribution. Given a probability distribution...
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  • Monte Carlo methods are used in corporate finance and mathematical finance to value and analyze (complex) instruments, portfolios and investments by simulating...
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  • Direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method uses probabilistic Monte Carlo simulation to solve the Boltzmann equation for finite Knudsen number fluid flows...
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  • In mathematical finance, a Monte Carlo option model uses Monte Carlo methods to calculate the value of an option with multiple sources of uncertainty...
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    Monte Carlo simulations can be made arbitrarily accurate by increasing the number of photons traced. For example, see the movie, where a Monte Carlo simulation...
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  • therefore no alternative to Monte Carlo simulation. In order to be able to carry out a meaningful Monte Carlo simulation, it is necessary to quantify...
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  • The kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is a Monte Carlo method computer simulation intended to simulate the time evolution of some processes occurring in...
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  • for example in Brigo and Mercurio (2001). The efficient and exact Monte-Carlo simulation of the Hull–White model with time dependent parameters can be easily...
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    Variance reduction (category Monte Carlo methods)
    theory of Monte Carlo methods, variance reduction is a procedure used to increase the precision of the estimates obtained for a given simulation or computational...
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  • transpose, which is useful for efficient numerical solutions, e.g., Monte Carlo simulations. It was discovered by André-Louis Cholesky for real matrices, and...
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  • Rohilla Shalizi, Monte Carlo, and Other Kinds of Stochastic Simulation, [online] available at http://bactra.org/notebooks/monte-carlo.html Donald E. Knuth...
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  • Quantum Monte Carlo encompasses a large family of computational methods whose common aim is the study of complex quantum systems. One of the major goals...
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  • the log-returns of the risk factors are multivariate normal. Monte Carlo algorithm simulation generates random market scenarios drawn from that multivariate...
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  • the Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation to molecular systems. It is therefore also a particular subset of the more general Monte Carlo method in statistical...
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  • In computer science, Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is a heuristic search algorithm for some kinds of decision processes, most notably those employed...
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  • Monte Carlo in statistical physics refers to the application of the Monte Carlo method to problems in statistical physics, or statistical mechanics. The...
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  • Pritchard et al. used approximation of the posterior distribution by Monte Carlo simulation. Alternative proposal of inference techniques include Gibbs sampling...
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    methodology is an extension of quantitative project risk analysis with Monte Carlo simulations. It is the next advance beyond critical path method and critical...
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    biological tissue can be equivalently modeled numerically with Monte Carlo simulations or analytically by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). However...
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    regular Monte Carlo method or Monte Carlo integration, which are based on sequences of pseudorandom numbers. Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods...
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    configurations in the Monte-Carlo simulation imposes the use of Euclidean time, by a Wick rotation of spacetime. In lattice Monte-Carlo simulations the aim is to...
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    Summer 1998) Al-Sharif L, Abdel Aal O.F, Abu Alqumsan A.M The Use Of Monte Carlo Simulation To Evaluate The Passenger Average Travelling Time Under Up-Peak...
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  • Importance sampling (category Monte Carlo methods)
    Importance sampling is a Monte Carlo method for evaluating properties of a particular distribution, while only having samples generated from a different...
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  • Biology Monte Carlo methods (BioMOCA) have been developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to simulate ion transport in an electrolyte...
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    statistical physics, the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for obtaining a sequence of random samples from a probability...
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  • Parallel tempering (category Markov chain Monte Carlo)
    a simulation method aimed at improving the dynamic properties of Monte Carlo method simulations of physical systems, and of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)...
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  • Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods in numerical analysis are algorithms for computing expectations that arise in stochastic simulations. Just as Monte Carlo methods...
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  • stochastic differential equations. Langevin dynamics simulations are a kind of Monte Carlo simulation. A real world molecular system is unlikely to be present...
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    Pearson in 1905. Realizations of random walks can be obtained by Monte Carlo simulation. A popular random walk model is that of a random walk on a regular...
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