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A new approach to unbiased estimation for SDE's

Computational Finance 2012-07-11 v1 Probability

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to constructing unbiased estimators when computing expectations of path functionals associated with stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Our randomization idea is closely related to multi-level Monte Carlo and provides a simple mechanism for constructing a finite variance unbiased estimator with "square root convergence rate" whenever one has available a scheme that produces strong error of order greater than 1/2 for the path functional under consideration.

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@article{arxiv.1207.2452,
  title  = {A new approach to unbiased estimation for SDE's},
  author = {Chang-han Rhee and Peter W. Glynn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2452},
  year   = {2012}
}
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