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								<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">owens_t</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span>
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								<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span>
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								<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span>
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								<a class="link" href="result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">owens_t</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">h</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">);</span>
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								<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../policy.html" title="Chapter 15. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a><span class="special">></span>
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								<a class="link" href="result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">owens_t</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">h</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../policy.html" title="Chapter 15. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a><span class="special">&);</span>
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								<span class="special">}}</span> <span class="comment">// namespaces</span>
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								      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.owens_t.description"></a></span><a class="link" href="owens_t.html#math_toolkit.owens_t.description">Description</a>
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								      Returns the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen%27s_T_function" target="_top">Owens_t
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								      function</a> of <span class="emphasis"><em>h</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>a</em></span>.
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								      level of precision to use etc. Refer to the <a class="link" href="../policy.html" title="Chapter 15. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">policy documentation
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								           <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../equations/owens_t.svg"></span>
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								      The function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">owens_t</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">h</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">)</span></code> gives the probability of the event <span class="emphasis"><em>(X
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								      > h and 0 < Y < a * X)</em></span>, where <span class="emphasis"><em>X</em></span> and
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								      For h and a > 0, T(h,a), gives the volume of an uncorrelated bivariate normal
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								      = ax</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>y = 0</em></span> and to the right of <span class="emphasis"><em>x
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								      That is the area shaded in the figure below (Owens 1956).
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								      and is also illustrated by a 3D plot.
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								      This function is used in the computation of the <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/skew_normal_dist.html" title="Skew Normal Distribution">Skew
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								      type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the result is of type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code> when T is an integer type, and type T
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								      Owen's original paper (page 1077) provides some additional corner cases.
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								        <span class="emphasis"><em>T(h, 0) = 0</em></span>
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								        <span class="emphasis"><em>T(h, 1) = ½ G(h) [1 - G(h)]</em></span>
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								      Over the built-in types and range tested, errors are less than 10 * std::numeric_limits<RealType>::epsilon().
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 4.37ε (Mean = 0.973ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 3.34ε (Mean = 0.942ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 3.34ε (Mean = 0.91ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 3.78ε (Mean = 0.621ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 0ε (Mean = 0ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 49ε (Mean = 2.16ε)</span>
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								                <span class="blue">Max = 24.5ε (Mean = 1.38ε)</span>
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								      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.owens_t.testing"></a></span><a class="link" href="owens_t.html#math_toolkit.owens_t.testing">Testing</a>
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								      Test data was generated by Patefield and Tandy algorithms T1 and T4, and also
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								      the suggested reference routine T7.
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								          T1 was rejected if the result was too small compared to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">atan</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">)</span></code>
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								          (ie cancellation),
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								          T4 was rejected if there was no convergence,
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								          Both were rejected if they didn't agree.
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								      Over the built-in types and range tested, errors are less than 10 std::numeric_limits<RealType>::epsilon().
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								      However, that there was a whole domain (large <span class="emphasis"><em>h</em></span>, small
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								      <span class="emphasis"><em>a</em></span>) where it was not possible to generate any reliable
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								      test values (all the methods got rejected for one reason or another).
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								      There are also two sets of sanity tests: spot values are computed using <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html" target="_top">Wolfram Mathematica</a>
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								      and <a href="http://www.r-project.org/" target="_top">The R Project for Statistical Computing</a>.
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								<a name="math_toolkit.owens_t.h4"></a>
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								      <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.owens_t.implementation"></a></span><a class="link" href="owens_t.html#math_toolkit.owens_t.implementation">Implementation</a>
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								      The function was proposed and evaluated by <a href="http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.aoms/1177728074" target="_top">Donald.
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								      B. Owen, Tables for computing bivariate normal probabilities, Ann. Math. Statist.,
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								      27, 1075-1090 (1956)</a>.
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								      The algorithms of Patefield, M. and Tandy, D. "Fast and accurate Calculation
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								      of Owen's T-Function", Journal of Statistical Software, 5 (5), 1 - 25
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								      (2000) are adapted for C++ with arbitrary RealType.
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								      The Patefield-Tandy algorithm provides six methods of evalualution (T1 to T6);
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								      the best method is selected according to the values of <span class="emphasis"><em>a</em></span>
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								      and <span class="emphasis"><em>h</em></span>. See the original paper and the source in <a href="../../../../../boost/math/special_functions/owens_t.hpp" target="_top">owens_t.hpp</a>
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								      for details.
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								      The Patefield-Tandy algorithm is accurate to approximately 20 decimal places,
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								      so for types with greater precision we use:
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								          A modified version of T1 which folds the calculation of <span class="emphasis"><em>atan(h)</em></span>
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								          into the T1 series (to avoid subtracting two values similar in magnitude),
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								          and then accelerates the resulting alternating series using method 1 from
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								          H. Cohen, F. Rodriguez Villegas, D. Zagier, "Convergence acceleration
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								          of alternating series", Bonn, (1991). The result is valid everywhere,
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								          but doesn't always converge, or may become too divergent in the first few
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								          terms to sum accurately. This is used for <span class="emphasis"><em>ah < 1</em></span>.
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								          A modified version of T2 which is accelerated in the same manner as T1.
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								          This is used for <span class="emphasis"><em>h > 1</em></span>.
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								          A version of T4 only when both T1 and T2 have failed to produce an accurate
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								          answer.
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								          Fallback to the Patefiled Tandy algorithm when all the above methods fail:
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								          this happens not at all for our test data at 100 decimal digits precision.
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								          However, there is a difficult area when <span class="emphasis"><em>a</em></span> is very
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								          close to 1 and the precision increases which may cause this to happen in
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								          very exceptional circumstances.
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								      Using the above algorithm and a 100-decimal digit type, results accurate to
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								      80 decimal places were obtained in the difficult area where <span class="emphasis"><em>a</em></span>
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								      is close to 1, and greater than 95 decimal places elsewhere.
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