Journal Article10.1287/IJOC.7.1.36
Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms of Probability Distributions
Joseph Abate,Ward Whitt +1 more
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TL;DR: A simple algorithm for numerically inverting Laplace transforms is presented, designed especially for probability cumulative distribution functions, but it applies to other functions as well.
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Abstract: We present a simple algorithm for numerically inverting Laplace transforms. The algorithm is designed especially for probability cumulative distribution functions, but it applies to other functions as well. Since it does not seem possible to provide effective methods with simple general error bounds, we simultaneously use two different methods to confirm the accuracy. Both methods are variants of the Fourier-series method. The first, building on Dubner and Abate (Dubner, H., J. Abate. 1968. Numerical inversion of Laplace transforms by relating them to the finite Fourier cosine transform. JACM 15 115–123.) and Simon, Stroot, and Weiss (Simon, R. M., M. T. Stroot, G. H. Weiss. 1972. Numerical inversion of Laplace transforms with application to percentage labeled experiments. Comput. Biomed. Res. 6 596–607.), uses the Bromwich integral, the Poisson summation formula and Euler summation; the second, building on Jagerman (Jagerman, D. L. 1978. An inversion technique for the Laplace transform with applications....
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