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An attempt to trace the birth of importance sampling

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In this note, we try to trace the birth of importance sampling (IS) back to 1949. We found the classical formulation of IS in a paper from Kahn in June 1949. As for the appearance of the expression importance sampling itself, it may have appeared a few months later, maybe in 1949 during conferences, but there is no published article with the name before 1950.
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hal-03696061 , version 1 (15-06-2022)

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Charly Andral. An attempt to trace the birth of importance sampling. 2022. ⟨hal-03696061⟩
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