The use of simulation in statistics dates from the start of the 20th century, coinciding with the beginnings of radio broadcasting and the invention of television. Just as radio and television are now commonplace in our everyday lives, simulation methods are now widely used throughout the many branches of statistics.

Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Notation. Introduction. Some Probability and Statistics Revision. Generating Uniform Random Variables. Particular Methods of Non-Uniform Random Variables. General Methods for Non-Uniform Random Variables. Testing Random Numbers. Variance Reduction and Integral Estimation. Model Construction and Analysis. Further Examples and Applications. Appendices. Solutions and Comments for Selected Questions. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.