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In general terms my estimator is $\sum_{i=1}^n {\omega_i * x_i \over \sum _{i=1}^n {\omega_i}}$ where $x_i$ are realizations of the instrumental r.v., $w_i$ its corresponding importance weighs and $n$ is the sample size.

What is the variance of this estimator?

In general terms my estimator is $\sum_{i=1}^n {\omega_i * x_i \over \sum _{i=1}^n {\omega_i}}$ where $x_i$ are realizations of the instrumental r.v., $w_i$ its corresponding importance weighs and $n$ is the sample size.

What is the variance of this estimator?

In general terms my estimator is $\sum_{i=1}^n {\omega_i * x_i \over \sum _{i=1}^n {\omega_i}}$ where $x_i$ are realizations of the instrumental r.v., $w_i$ its corresponding importance weighs and $n$ the sample size.

What is the variance of this estimator?

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Variance of importance Var self-normalised sampling estimator

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Error Variance of importance sampling estimator

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