Thesis
On the use of transport and optimal control methods for Monte Carlo simulation
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This thesis explores ideas from transport theory and optimal control to develop novel Monte Carlo methods to perform efficient statistical computation.
The first project considers the problem of constructing a transport map between two given probability measures. In the Bayesian formalism, this approach is natural when one introduces a curve of probability measures connecting the prior to posterior by tempering the likelihood function. The main idea is to move samples from the prio...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-04-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Heng, J
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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