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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

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But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. There are many strategies we can use to estimate this quantity, and we will discuss each option in detail. Statistical Science.

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