The Lognormal Distribution and Quantum Monte Carlo Data
Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Quantum Monte Carlo data are often afflicted with distributions that resemble lognormal probability distributions and consequently their statistical analysis can not be based on simple Gaussian assumptions. To this extent a method is introduced to estimate these distributions and thus give better estimates to errors associated with them. This method is applied to a simple quantum model utilizing the single-thread Monte Carlo algorithm to estimate ground state energies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0303594,
title = {The Lognormal Distribution and Quantum Monte Carlo Data},
author = {Mervlyn Moodley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0303594},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages with 9 figures