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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
J. E. Hoogenboom
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 70 | Number 2 | May 1979 | Pages 210-212
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19656
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In solving integral equations and estimating average with the Monte Carlo method, biasing functions may be used to reduce the variance of the estimates. A simple derivation has been used to prove the existence of a zero-variance collision estimator if a specific biasing function and survival probability are applied. This optimum biasing function is the same as that used for the well-known zero-variance last-event estimator.