1 Monte Carlo Integration and Variance Reduction 1.1 Monte Carlo Integration 1.1.1 Simple Monte Carlo estimator 1.1.2 Variance and Efficiency 1.2 Variance Reduction 1.3 Antithetic Variables 1.4 Control Variates 1.4.1 Antithetic variate as control variate 1.4.2 Several control variates 1.5 Importance sampling 1.6 Stratified Sampling 1.7 Stratified Importance Sampling
1 Monte Carlo Methods in Inference 1.1 Monte Carlo Methods for Estimation 1.1.1 Monte Carlo Estimation and Standard Error 1.1.2 Estimation of MSE 1.2 Estimating a confidence level 1.3 Monte Carlo Methods for Hypothesis Tests 1.4 Empirical Type I error rate 1.4.1 Power of a Test 1.4.2 Power Comparisons 1.5 Application: “Count Five” Test for Equal Variance