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This chapter discusses alternatives to Monte Carlo simulation known as quasi-Monte Carlo or low-discrepancy methods. These methods differ from ordinary Monte Carlo in that they make no attempt to mimic randomness. Indeed, they seek to increase accuracy specifically by generating points that are too evenly distributed to be random. Applying these methods to the pricing of derivative securities requires formulating a pricing problem as the calculation of an integral and thus suppressing its stochastic interpretation as an expected value. This contrasts with the variance reduction techniques of Chapter 4, which take advantage of the stochastic formulation to improve precision.
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Glasserman, P. (2004). Quasi-Monte Carlo. In: Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering. Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability, vol 53. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21617-1_5
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