introduction: medical tourism is currently accepted as a developing industry. it describes the act of leaving home for treatment and care abroad. there are several factors that influence choice of destination for patients in medical tourism. identification of these factors and prioritization according to importance weights could help international healthcare providers develop their marketing st...

In multiple importance sampling we combine samples from a finite list of proposal distributions. When those proposal distributions are used to create control variates, it is possible (Owen and Zhou, 2000) to bound the ratio of the resulting variance to that of the unknown best proposal distribution in our list. The minimax regret arises by taking a uniform mixture of proposals, but that is cons...