34:58 duration 34 minutes 58 seconds
Lecture 5-2: Variance Reduction Techniques
• Principles and rationale. • Control Variates
01:33:05 duration 1 hour 33 minutes
Lectures 65-66: discretization and Monte Carlo…
Lectures 65-66: discretization and Monte Carlo errors
Discretization error and Monte Carlo error. Acceleration techniques. Introduction to MATLAB. Pricing of an Asian option: a horse-race among VBA, MATLAB and parallelized MATLAB codes.
01:41:27 duration 1 hour 41 minutes
Lectures 53-54: variance reduction techniques
Variance reduction techniques: control variables, antithetic variables,importance sampling. Implementation in VBA.
20:43 duration 20 minutes 43 seconds
Lecture 48: the Monte Carlo method
The Monte Carlo method. Monte Carlo estimator and error.