H. Wang's research while affiliated with Brown University and other places

Publication (1)

Article
We describe a method for treating the sparse or rare-event sampling problem. Our approach is based on the introduction of a family of modified importance functions, functions that are related to but easier to sample than the original statistical distribution. We quantify the performance of the approach for a series of example problems using an asym...

Citations

... Most of the work coming in the next two sections is from the publication "A spatial averaging approach to rare-event sampling" [6], by N. Plattner, J. D. Doll and M. Meuwly, which puts all the basis of the method. ...