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Monte Carlo Methods

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In this new post of the “Deep Reinforcement Learning Explained” series, we will introduce the Monte Carlo Methods and the Exploration-Explanation Dilemma

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Monte Carlo Methods, Made Simple

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Imagine a 10 by 10 square on a coordinate grid. Some shape is drawn on that grid, but you don’t know what it looks like. However, you can query a function f(x, y) where (x, y) is the coordinate and…

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Monte Carlo Simulation

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A Gentle Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods

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Monte Carlo methods are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept behind these methods is the use of…

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Monte Carlo Method Explained

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In this post, I will introduce, explain and implement the Monte Carlo method to you. This method of simulation is one of my favourites because of its simplicity and yet it’s a refined method to…

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Monte Carlo Methods Decoded

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The Basics Imagine you have a big, mysterious jar full of different-colored marbles. There is one problem: you can’t see inside it to count how many of each color there are. You want to know which col...

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A Gentle Introduction to Monte Carlo Sampling for Probability

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Monte Carlo methods are a class of techniques for randomly sampling a probability distribution. There are many problem domains where describing or estimating the probability distribution is relatively...

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An Overview of Monte Carlo Methods

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Monte Carlo (MC) methods are a subset of computational algorithms that use the process of repeated random sampling to make numerical estimations of unknown parameters. They allow for the modeling of…

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Monte Carlo Without the Math

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Monte Carlo simulations are extremely common methods in the world of data science and analytics. They can be used for everything from business process optimization to physics simulation…

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A Gentle Introduction to the Monte Carlo Simulation

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Learn how to create this famous simulation using R and Python. Continue reading on Towards Data Science

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Monte Carlo Integration and Sampling Methods

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Integration is a critical calculation used frequently in problem solving. With a probability task, an expectation value of a continuous random variable x is defined by the following integration where…...

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The basics of Monte Carlo integration

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We all remember the integrals we had to compute manually in hight school. To do so, we had to compute a series of more or less complexe operations to find the antiderivative functions’ expressions…

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Just Keep Guessing: The Power of the Monte Carlo Method

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The Monte Carlo method is an incredibly powerful tool used in a wide variety of fields. From mathematics to science to finance, the Monte Carlo method can be used to solve a variety of unique and…

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AI Anyone Can Understand: Part 8 — The Monte Carlo Method

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Understanding the basics of the Monte Carlo method Continue reading on Towards AI

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Monte Carlo Simulations: The Intersection of Probabilistic and Deterministic

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Hi welcome to my blog, I hope you find this helpful as an introduction to Monte Carlo Simulations. What this is, a minimal mathematical approach to Monte Carlo Simulations with simple graphics to…

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Monte Carlo Approximation Methods: Which one should you choose and when?

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Is it Inverse Transformation, Random Walk Metropolis-Hastings, or Gibbs? An analysis focusing on the mathematical foundation, Python implementation from scratch, and pros/cons of each method Photo by...

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Understanding Monte Carlo Simulation

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Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for approximating a distribution when deriving the exact one is difficult. This situation can arise when a complicated transformation is applied to a random…

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Monte Carlo Integration is Magic

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Monte Carlo Methods are incredibly popular due largely in part to the catchy nature of the title ‘Monte Carlo’ and then by the fact that they have countless applications across a large number of…

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Monte Carlo Integration

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Often times, we can’t solve integrals analytically and must resort to numerical methods. Among these include Monte Carlo integration. As you may remember, the integral of a function can be…

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Calculating 𝛑 Using Monte-Carlo Simulations

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A short intro to Monte-Carlo simulations, complete with an example and full Python code.

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Monte Carlo Simulation — a practical guide

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Monte Carlo Simulation (or Method) is a probabilistic numerical technique used to estimate the outcome of a given, uncertain (stochastic) process. This means it’s a method for simulating events that…

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Probability Learning: Monte Carlo Methods

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Hello again friends! Welcome to Probability Learning! In this post we will see what Monte Carlo methods are, their different use cases, and how they are applied in the real world. Lets get to it! You…...

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Finding Expected Values using Monte Carlo Simulation: An Introduction

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If you’re someone who is interested in solving probability puzzles, there’s a good chance that you have come across some puzzles which require you to find the expected number of trials before you…

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15-Minute Conceptual and Painless Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods and Applied Bayesian…

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In this article I shall provide a very brief, self-contained, introduction to Bayesian Inference and Monte Carlo methods, that should hopefully inspire you to dig deeper through some of the…

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