Numerical solution of integral equation involving unknown random variable transformation.

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Let Y be a random variable normally distributed, and let $X=g(Y)$ be a transformation of Y such that g solves a certain integral equation

$$I[g,F_X]=0$$

where $F_X$ is the distribution function of X.

Solve for g.

The only algorithm I naively came out is:

  1. guess an initial probability distribution for X
  2. solve I[.,.] for g, given the guessed $F_X$
  3. estimate the new $F_X$ given g
  4. goto step 2 or exit

Is there a more sophisticated strategy I can adopt for solving this equation? Any reference to articles or books can be helpful.