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3 /*
4  Copyright (C) 2018 Klaus Spanderen
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19 
20 /*! \file cevrndcalculator.hpp
21     \brief risk neutral density calculator for the
22     constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model
23 */
24 
25 #ifndef quantlib_cev_rnd_calculator_hpp
26 #define quantlib_cev_rnd_calculator_hpp
27 
28 #include <ql/methods/finitedifferences/utilities/riskneutraldensitycalculator.hpp>
29 
30 namespace QuantLib {
31     //! constant elasticity of variance process (absorbing boundary at f=0)
32     /*! \f[
33          df_t = \alpha f_t^\beta \mathrm{d}W_t
34         \f]
35     */
36 
37     /*! References:
38 
39         D.R. Brecher, A.E. Lindsay, Results on the CEV Process, Past and Present
40         https://www.fincad.com/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/Resources-Wiki/cev-process-working-paper.pdf
41     */
42 
43     class CEVRNDCalculator : public RiskNeutralDensityCalculator {
44       public:
45         CEVRNDCalculator(Real f0, Real alpha, Real beta);
46 
47         Real massAtZero(Time t) const;
48 
49         Real pdf(Real f, Time t) const;
50         Real cdf(Real f, Time t) const;
51         Real invcdf(Real q, Time t) const;
52 
53       private:
54         Real X(Real f) const;
55         Real invX(Real f) const;
56         Real sankaranApprox(Real f, Time t, Real x) const;
57 
58         const Real f0_, alpha_, beta_, delta_, x0_;
59     };
60 }
61 
62 #endif
63