1method-multilevel_sampling-allocation_target 2 3Blurb:: 4Allocation statistics/target for the MLMC sample allocation. 5 6Description:: 7Computes the variance of the estimator for a given statistics/target and fits sample allocation by solving the corresponding optimization problem. The \c allocation_target specification supports options of \c mean (default), \c variance an analytic approximation is available. Additionally, a numerical optimization can be used in that case, see \c variance option \ref method-multilevel_sampling-allocation_target-variance-optimization. 8 9<b> Default Behavior </b> 10"mean" 11 12Topics:: 13 14Examples:: 15The following method block 16\verbatim 17method, 18 model_pointer = 'HIERARCH' 19 multilevel_sampling 20 pilot_samples = 20 seed = 1237 21 convergence_tolerance = .01 22 allocation_target = variance 23\endverbatim 24 25uses the variance as sample allocation target by computing its variance. 26 27Theory:: 28Faq:: 29See_Also:: 30