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Optimization of Linear Monte Carlo Calculations

Eugene S. Troubetzkoy

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 107 / Number 4 / April 1991 / Pages 359-364

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23797

The variance of the calculation is minimized on the basis of parameters generated by a learning technique. The optimum is obtained if sampling is biased proportionally to the expected root-mean-square score. The method is compared with existing methods, which bias proportionally to the expected score.