Monte-Carlo Methods and Stochastic Processes

From Linear to Non-Linear
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4622-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Developed from the author’s course at the Ecole Polytechnique, Monte-Carlo Methods and Stochastic Processes: From Linear to Non-Linear focuses on the simulation of stochastic processes in continuous time and their link with partial differential equations (PDEs). It covers linear and nonlinear problems in biology, finance, geophysics, mechanics, chemistry, and other application areas. The text also thoroughly develops the problem of numerical integration and computation of expectation by the Monte-Carlo method.

The book begins with a history of Monte-Carlo methods and an overview of three typical Monte-Carlo problems: numerical integration and computation of expectation, simulation of complex distributions, and stochastic optimization. The remainder of the text is organized in three parts of progressive difficulty. The first part presents basic tools for stochastic simulation and analysis of algorithm convergence. The second part describes Monte-Carlo methods for the simulation of stochastic differential equations. The final part discusses the simulation of non-linear dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gobet, Emmanuel

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Bayesianische Inferenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: brief overview of Monte-Carlo methods. TOOLBOX FOR STOCHASTIC SIMULATION: Generating random variables. Convergences and error estimates. Variance reduction. SIMULATION OF LINEAR PROCESS: Stochastic differential equations and Feynman-Kac formulas. Euler scheme for stochastic differential equations. Statistical error in the simulation of stochastic differential equations. SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR PROCESS: Backward stochastic differential equations. Simulation by empirical regression. Interacting particles and non-linear equations in the McKean sense. Appendix. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Emmanuel Gobet is a professor of applied mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique. His research interests include algorithms of probabilistic type and stochastic approximations, financial mathematics, Malliavin calculus and stochastic analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, statistics for stochastic processes, and statistical learning.