On reduction of finite-sample variance by extended Latin hypercube sampling
Hoshino, Nobuaki ; Takemura, Akimichi
Bernoulli, Tome 6 (2000) no. 6, p. 1035-1050 / Harvested from Project Euclid
McKay, Conover and Beckman introduced Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) for reducing the variance of Monte Carlo simulations. LHS is a method for stratifying a univariate margin. We consider an extension of LHS to stratify an m-variate margin with orthogonal arrays, after Owen and Tang. We define extended Latin hypercube sampling of strength m (henceforth denoted by ELHS(m)), such that ELHS(1) reduces to LHS. Using the results obtained by Owen, we first derive an explicit formula for the finite-sample variance of ELHS(m). Based on this formula, we give a sufficient condition for variance reduction by ELHS(m), generalizing similar results from McKay et al. for m=1. Actually, our sufficient condition for m=1 contains the sufficient condition of McKay et al. and thus strengthens their result.
Publié le : 2000-12-14
Classification:  computer experiments,  Monte Carlo simulation,  numerical integration,  ortho\-gonal arrays,  variance reduction
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Hoshino, Nobuaki; Takemura, Akimichi. On reduction of finite-sample variance by extended Latin hypercube sampling. Bernoulli, Tome 6 (2000) no. 6, pp.  1035-1050. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1081194159/