Journal of Computational Finance

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A series expansion for the bivariate normal integral

Oldrich Alfons Vasicek

ABSTRACT

An infinite series expansion is given for the bivariate normal cumulative distribution function. This expansion converges as a series of powers of 1 - p2, where p is the correlation coefficient, and thus represents a good alternative to the tetrachoric series when ñ is large in absolute value.

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