Abstract
Importance sampling in the setting of heavy tailed random variables has generally focused on models with additive noise terms. In this work we extend this concept by considering importance sampling for the estimation of rare events in Markov chains of the formXn+1 = An+1Xn+Bn+1; X0 = 0;where the Bn's and An's are independent sequences of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables and the Bn's are regularly varying and the An's are suitably light tailed relative to Bn. We focus on efficient estimation of the rare event probability P(Xn > b) as b ↗ ∞. In particular we present a strongly efficient importance sampling algorithm for estimating these probabilities, and present a numerical example showcasing the strong efficiency.
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