LegendreEstimator.java

package org.drip.specialfunction.definition;

/*
 * -*- mode: java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
 */

/*!
 * Copyright (C) 2020 Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 * Copyright (C) 2019 Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 * 
 *  This file is part of DROP, an open-source library targeting analytics/risk, transaction cost analytics,
 *  	asset liability management analytics, capital, exposure, and margin analytics, valuation adjustment
 *  	analytics, and portfolio construction analytics within and across fixed income, credit, commodity,
 *  	equity, FX, and structured products. It also includes auxiliary libraries for algorithm support,
 *  	numerical analysis, numerical optimization, spline builder, model validation, statistical learning,
 *  	and computational support.
 *  
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 *  DROP is composed of three modules:
 *  
 *  - DROP Product Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Product-Core/
 *  - DROP Portfolio Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Portfolio-Core/
 *  - DROP Computational Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Computational-Core/
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 * 	DROP Product Core implements libraries for the following:
 * 	- Fixed Income Analytics
 * 	- Loan Analytics
 * 	- Transaction Cost Analytics
 * 
 * 	DROP Portfolio Core implements libraries for the following:
 * 	- Asset Allocation Analytics
 *  - Asset Liability Management Analytics
 * 	- Capital Estimation Analytics
 * 	- Exposure Analytics
 * 	- Margin Analytics
 * 	- XVA Analytics
 * 
 * 	DROP Computational Core implements libraries for the following:
 * 	- Algorithm Support
 * 	- Computation Support
 * 	- Function Analysis
 *  - Model Validation
 * 	- Numerical Analysis
 * 	- Numerical Optimizer
 * 	- Spline Builder
 *  - Statistical Learning
 * 
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 * 
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/**
 * <i>LegendreEstimator</i> exposes the Stubs for estimating the Legendre Function and its Jacobian using the
 * 2F1 Hyper-geometric Function. The References are:
 * 
 * <br><br>
 * 	<ul>
 * 		<li>
 * 			Gessel, I., and D. Stanton (1982): Strange Evaluations of Hyper-geometric Series <i>SIAM Journal
 * 				on Mathematical Analysis</i> <b>13 (2)</b> 295-308
 * 		</li>
 * 		<li>
 * 			Koepf, W (1995): Algorithms for m-fold Hyper-geometric Summation <i>Journal of Symbolic
 * 				Computation</i> <b>20 (4)</b> 399-417
 * 		</li>
 * 		<li>
 * 			Lavoie, J. L., F. Grondin, and A. K. Rathie (1996): Generalization of Whipple’s Theorem on the
 * 				Sum of a (_2^3)F(a,b;c;z) <i>Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics</i> <b>72</b>
 * 				293-300
 * 		</li>
 * 		<li>
 * 			National Institute of Standards and Technology (2019): Hyper-geometric Function
 * 				https://dlmf.nist.gov/15
 * 		</li>
 * 		<li>
 * 			Wikipedia (2019): Hyper-geometric Function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric_function
 * 		</li>
 * 	</ul>
 *
 *	<br><br>
 *  <ul>
 *		<li><b>Module </b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/ComputationalCore.md">Computational Core Module</a></li>
 *		<li><b>Library</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/FunctionAnalysisLibrary.md">Function Analysis Library</a></li>
 *		<li><b>Project</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/src/main/java/org/drip/specialfunction/README.md">Special Function Implementation Analysis</a></li>
 *		<li><b>Package</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/src/main/java/org/drip/specialfunction/definition/README.md">Definition of Special Function Estimators</a></li>
 *  </ul>
 *
 * @author Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 */

public abstract class LegendreEstimator extends org.drip.specialfunction.definition.HypergeometricEstimator
{

	protected LegendreEstimator (
		final double alpha,
		final double ceta)
		throws java.lang.Exception
	{
		super (
			new org.drip.specialfunction.definition.HypergeometricParameters (
				-1. * alpha,
				1. + alpha,
				1. - ceta
			)
		);
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve Legendre Alpha
	 * 
	 * @return The Legendre Alpha
	 */

	public double alpha()
	{
		return -1. * hypergeometricParameters().a();
	}

	/**
	 * Retrieve Legendre Ceta
	 * 
	 * @return The Legendre Ceta
	 */

	public double ceta()
	{
		return 1. - hypergeometricParameters().c();
	}

	@Override public double evaluate (
		final double z)
		throws java.lang.Exception
	{
		return legendre (z);
	}

	/**
	 * Evaluate the Legendre Function
	 * 
	 * @param z Z
	 *  
	 * @return The Legendre Function Value
	 * 
	 * @throws java.lang.Exception Thrown if the Inputs are Invalid
	 */

	public abstract double legendre (
		final double z)
		throws java.lang.Exception;
}