مؤلف: Zdravko I. Botev

Dirk P. Kroese, Ph D, is Australian Professorial Fellow in Statistics at The University of Queensland. Dr. Kroese has more than seventy publications in such areas as stochastic modeling, randomized algorithms, computational statistics, and reliability. He is a pioneer of the cross-entropy method and the coauthor of Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method, Second Edition. Thomas Taimre, Ph D, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. He currently focuses his research on Monte Carlo methods and simulation, from the theoretical foundations to performing computer implementations.