A review of conditional rare event simulation for tail probabilities of heavy tailed random variables

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Authors: L. Rojas-Nandayapa 

Publication date: 9 September 2014

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

heavy tailsrare-event simulationasymptotic approximationsconditional Monte Carlonon-independent random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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