Monte Carlo Estimation for Imprecise Probabilities: Basic Properties
Probability
2019-09-02 v2
Abstract
We describe Monte Carlo methods for estimating lower envelopes of expectations of real random variables. We prove that the estimation bias is negative and that its absolute value shrinks with increasing sample size. We discuss fairly practical techniques for proving strong consistency of the estimators and use these to prove the consistency of an example in the literature. We also provide an example where there is no consistency.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.09301,
title = {Monte Carlo Estimation for Imprecise Probabilities: Basic Properties},
author = {Arne Decadt and Gert de Cooman and Jasper De Bock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09301},
year = {2019}
}