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/*! \file bivariatenormaldistribution.hpp
    \brief bivariate cumulative normal distribution
*/
 
#ifndef quantlib_bivariatenormal_distribution_hpp
#define quantlib_bivariatenormal_distribution_hpp
 
#include <ql/math/distributions/normaldistribution.hpp>
 
namespace QuantLib {
 
    //! Cumulative bivariate normal distribution function
    /*! Drezner (1978) algorithm, six decimal places accuracy.
 
        For this implementation see
       "Option pricing formulas", E.G. Haug, McGraw-Hill 1998
 
        \todo check accuracy of this algorithm and compare with:
              1) Drezner, Z, (1978),
                 Computation of the bivariate normal integral,
                 Mathematics of Computation 32, pp. 277-279.
              2) Drezner, Z. and Wesolowsky, G. O. (1990)
                 `On the Computation of the Bivariate Normal Integral',
                 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 35,
                 pp. 101-107.
              3) Drezner, Z (1992)
                 Computation of the Multivariate Normal Integral,
                 ACM Transactions on Mathematics Software 18, pp. 450-460.
              4) Drezner, Z (1994)
                 Computation of the Trivariate Normal Integral,
                 Mathematics of Computation 62, pp. 289-294.
              5) Genz, A. (1992)
                `Numerical Computation of the Multivariate Normal
                 Probabilities', J. Comput. Graph. Stat. 1, pp. 141-150.
 
        \test the correctness of the returned value is tested by
              checking it against known good results.
    */
    class BivariateCumulativeNormalDistributionDr78 {
      public:
        BivariateCumulativeNormalDistributionDr78(Real rho);
        // function
        Real operator()(Real a, Real b) const;
      private:
        Real rho_, rho2_;
        static const Real x_[], y_[];
    };
 
 
    //! Cumulative bivariate normal distibution function (West 2004)
    /*! The implementation derives from the article "Better
        Approximations To Cumulative Normal Distibutions", Graeme
        West, Dec 2004 available at www.finmod.co.za. Also available
        in Wilmott Magazine, 2005, (May), 70-76, The main code is a
        port of the C++ code at www.finmod.co.za/cumfunctions.zip.
 
        The algorithm is based on the near double-precision algorithm
        described in "Numerical Computation of Rectangular Bivariate
        an Trivariate Normal and t Probabilities", Genz (2004),
        Statistics and Computing 14, 151-160. (available at
        www.sci.wsu.edu/math/faculty/henz/homepage)
 
        The QuantLib implementation mainly differs from the original
        code in two regards;
        - The implementation of the cumulative normal distribution is
          QuantLib::CumulativeNormalDistribution
        - The arrays XX and W are zero-based
 
        \test the correctness of the returned value is tested by
              checking it against known good results.
    */
    class BivariateCumulativeNormalDistributionWe04DP {
      public:
        BivariateCumulativeNormalDistributionWe04DP(Real rho);
        // function
        Real operator()(Real a, Real b) const;
      private:
        Real correlation_;
        CumulativeNormalDistribution cumnorm_;
    };
 
    //! default bivariate implementation
    typedef BivariateCumulativeNormalDistributionWe04DP
                                        BivariateCumulativeNormalDistribution;
 
}
 
 
#endif