In this article we investigate quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for multidimensional improper integrals with respect to a measure other than the uniform distribution. Additionally, the integrand is allowed to be unbounded at the lower boundary of the integration domain. We establish convergence of the QMC estimator to the value of the improper integral under conditions involving both the integrand and the sequence used. Furthermore, we suggest a modification of an approach proposed by Hlawka and Mu¨ck for the creation of low-discrepancy sequences with regard to a given density, which are suited for singular integrands. r This paper is devoted to quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques for weighted integration problems of the formwhere H denotes an s-dimensional probability distribution with support K ¼ ½a; b ¼ Q s i¼1 ½a ðiÞ ; b ðiÞ DR s and continuous density hðxÞ: Furthermore, f is a function with singularities on the left boundary of K:Numerical integration problems of this form frequently occur in practice, e.g. in the field of computational finance. A typical example is the estimation of the mean of
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