Handbook of Monte Carlo Methods

offer researchers and graduate and advanced graduate students a compendium of Monte Carlo

methods, which are statistical methods that involve random experiments on a computer. There are a

great many such methods being used for so many kinds of problems in so many fields that such an

overall view is hard to find. Combining theory, algorithms, and applications, they consider such topics

as uniform random number generation, probability distributions, discrete event simulation, variance

reduction, estimating derivatives, and applications to network reliability.” (Annotation 2011 Book News

Inc. Portland, OR)