《统计模拟（英文版第5版）》内容丰富，不论作为教材还是参考书都非常值得推荐。书中介绍了统计模拟的最新方法和技术，有丰富的金融、优化等领域的应用实例，强调方差缩减技术，还有一章专门介绍MCMC方法。罗斯数学上严谨，同时又对应用很感兴趣。数学的严密理论，数学方法在实际生活中如何应用的例证，一般不会在同一本书中出现，而罗斯却很罕见地将二者融合为一体。

罗斯编著的《统计模拟（英文版第5版）》是统计模拟类最畅销的教材，已被全球众多高校采用，如加州大学伯克利分校、哥伦比亚大学、伊利诺伊州立大学、华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校、南加州大学、康涅狄格大学等。书中介绍了统计模拟的最新方法和技术，有丰富的金融、优化等领域的应用实例，强调方差缩减技术，还有一章专门介绍MCMC方法。《统计模拟（英文版第5版）》显著提升，全面修订和更新，不但各章都新增了很多内容和习题，还增加了两章内容，即“多元正态分布与Copulus”和“高级方差缩减技术”。

Preface

1 Introduction 1

 Exercises 3

2 Elements of Probability 5

 2.1 Sample Space and Events 5

 2.2 Axioms of Probability 6

 2.3 Conditional Probability and Independence 7

 2.4 Random Variables 9

 2.5 Expectation 11

 2.6 Variance 14

 2.7 Chebyshev's Inequality and the Laws of Large Numbers 16

 2.8 Some Discrete Random Variables 18

 2.9 Continuous Random Variables 23

 2.10 Conditional Expectation and Conditional Variance 31

 Exercises 33

 Bibliography 38

3 Random Numbers 39

 Introduction 39

 3.1 Pseudorandom Number Generation 39

 3.2 Using Random Numbers to Evaluate Integrals 40

 Exercises 44

 Bibliography 45

4 Generating Discrete Random Variables 47

 4.1 The Inverse Transform Method 47

 4.2 Generating a Poisson Random Variable 54

 4.3 Generating Binomial Random Variables 55

 4.4 The Acceptance-Rejection Technique 56

 4.5 The Composition Approach 58

 4.6 The Alias Method for Generating Discrete Random Variables 60

 4.7 Generating Random Vectors 63

 Exercises 64

5 Generating Continuous Random Variables 69

 Introduction 69

 5.1 The Inverse Transform Algorithm 69

 5.2 The Rejection Method 73

 5.3 The Polar Method for Generating Normal Random Variables 80

 5.4 Generating a Poisson Process 83

 5.5 Generating a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process 85

 5.6 Simulating a Two-Dimensional Poisson Process 88

 Exercises 91

 Bibliography 95

6 The Multivariate Normal Distribution and Copulas 97

 Introduction 97

 6.1 The Multivariate Normal 97

 6.2 Generating a Multivariate Normal Random Vector 99

 6.3 Copulas 102

 6.4 Generating Variables from Copula Models 107

 Exercises 108

7 The Discrete Event Simulation Approach 11 !

 Introduction 111

 7.1 Simulation via Discrete Events 111

 7.2 A Single-Server Queueing System 112

 7.3 A Queueing System with Two Servers in Series 115

 7.4 A Queueing System with Two Parallel Servers 117

 7.5 An Inventory Model 120

 7.6 An Insurance Risk Model 122

 7.7 A Repair Problem 124

 7.8 Exercising a Stock Option 126

 7.9 Verification of the Simulation Model 128

 Exercises 129

 Bibliography 134

8 Statistical Analysis of Simulated Data 135

 Introduction 135

 8.1 The Sample Mean and Sample Variance 135

 8.2 Interval Estimates of a Population Mean 141

 8.3 The Bootstrapping Technique for Estimating Mean Square Errors 144

 Exercises 150

 Bibliography 152

9 Variance Reduction Techniques 153

 Introduction 153

 9.1 The Use of Antithetic Variables 155

 9.2 The Use of Control Variates 162

 9.3 Variance Reduction by Conditioning 169

 9.4 Stratified Sampling 182

 9.5 Applications of Stratified Sampling 192

 9.6 Importance Sampling 201

 9.7 Using Common Random Numbers 214

 9.8 Evaluating an Exotic Option 216

 9.9 Appendix: Verification of Antithetic Variable Approach When Estimating the Expected Value of Monotone Functions 220

 Exercises 222

 Bibliography 231

10 Additional Variance Reduction Techniques 233

 Introduction 233

 10.1 The Conditional Bernoulli Sampling Method 233

 10.2 Normalized Importance Sampling 240

 10.3 Latin Hypercube Sampling 244

 Exercises 246

11 Statistical Validation Techniques 247

 Introduction 247

 11.1 Goodness of Fit Tests 247

 11.2 Goodness of Fit Tests When Some Parameters Are Unspecified 254

 11.3 The Two-Sample Problem 257

 11.4 Validating the Assumption of a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process 263

 Exercises 267

 Bibliography 270

12 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods 271

 Introduction 271

 12.1 Markov Chains 271

 12.2 The Hastings-Metropolis Algorithm 274

 12.3 The Gibbs Sampler 276

 12.4 Continuous time Markov Chains and a Queueing Loss Model 287

 12.5 Simulated Annealing 290

 12.6 The Sampling Importance Resampling Algorithm 293

 12.7 Coupling from the Past 297

 Exercises 298

 Bibliography 301

Index 303