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Simulating Perpetuities

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  • Luc Devroye

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A perpetuity is a random variable that can be represented as $$1 + W_1 + W_1 W_2 + W_1 W_2 W_3 + \cdot \cdot \cdot ,$$ , where the W i's are i.i.d. random variables. We study exact random variate generation for perpetuities and discuss the expected complexity. For the Vervaat family, in which $$W_1 \underline{\underline {\mathcal{L}}} {\text{ }}U^{1/\beta } ,\beta > 0,U$$ uniform [0, 1], all the details of a novel rejection method are worked out. There exists an implementation of our algorithm that only uses uniform random numbers, additions, multiplications and comparisons.

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  • Luc Devroye, 2001. "Simulating Perpetuities," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 3(1), pages 97-115, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:metcap:v:3:y:2001:i:1:d:10.1023_a:1011470225335
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1011470225335
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    1. Devroye, Luc, 1989. "On random variate generation when only moments or Fourier coefficients are known," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 71-89.
    2. Gary Ulrich, 1984. "Computer Generation of Distributions on the M‐Sphere," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 33(2), pages 158-163, June.
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    1. Margarete Knape & Ralph Neininger, 2008. "Approximating Perpetuities," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 10(4), pages 507-529, December.
    2. Onno Boxma & Andreas Löpker & Michel Mandjes & Zbigniew Palmowski, 2021. "A multiplicative version of the Lindley recursion," Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 98(3), pages 225-245, August.
    3. Margarete Knape & Ralph Neininger, 2013. "Appendix to “Approximating Perpetuities”," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 707-712, September.

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