easy · Quantitative Finance
What is the result of using antithetic variates if the payoff function is highly non-monotonic or symmetric such that f(Z) ≈ f(-Z)?
- The variance of the estimator may actually increase.
- The convergence rate will become 1/M^2.
- The variance reduction will be maximized.
- The estimator will become biased toward zero.
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