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 <p>
         Hubert Holin started the Boost.Math library. The inverse hyperbolic functions,
         and the sinus cardinal functions are his.
       </p>
 <p>
         John Maddock started this library, the beta, gamma, erf, polynomial, and
         factorial functions are his, as is the "Toolkit" section, and many
         of the statistical distributions.
       </p>
 <p>
         Paul A. Bristow threw down the challenge in <a href="http://www2.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2004/n1668.pdf" target="_top">A
         Proposal to add Mathematical Functions for Statistics to the C++ Standard
         Library</a> to add the key math functions, especially those essential
         for statistics. After JM accepted and solved the difficult problems, not
         only numerically, but in full C++ template style, PAB implemented a few of
         the statistical distributions. PAB also tirelessly proof-read everything
         that JM threw at him (so that all remaining editorial mistakes are his fault).
       </p>
 <p>
         Xiaogang Zhang worked on the Bessel functions and elliptic integrals for
         his Google Summer of Code project 2006.
       </p>
 <p>
         Bruno Lalande submitted the "compile time power of a runtime base"
         code.
       </p>
 <p>
         Johan R&#229;de wrote the optimised floating point classification code.
       </p>
 <p>
         Gautam Sewani coded the logistic distribution as part of a Google Summer
         of Code project 2008.
       </p>
 <p>
         M. A. (Thijs) van den Berg coded the Laplace distribution. (Thijs has also
         threatened to implement some multivariate distributions).
       </p>
 <p>
         Thomas Mang requested the inverse gamma in chi squared distributions for
         Bayesian applications and helped in their implementation.
       </p>
 <p>
         Professor Nico Temme for advice on the inverse incomplete beta function.
       </p>
 <p>
         <a href="http://www.shoup.net" target="_top">Victor Shoup for NTL</a>, without which
         it would have much more difficult to produce high accuracy constants, and
         especially the tables of accurate values for testing.
       </p>
 <p>
         We are grateful to Joel Guzman for helping us stress-test his <a href="http://www.boost.org/tools/quickbook/index.htm" target="_top">Boost.Quickbook</a>
         program used to generate the html and pdf versions of this document, adding
         several new features en route.
       </p>
 <p>
         Thanks to Mark Coleman and Georgi Boshnakov for spot test values from <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html" target="_top">Wolfram Mathematica</a>,
         and of course, to Eric Weissten for nurturing <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com" target="_top">Wolfram
         MathWorld</a>, an invaluable resource.
       </p>
 <p>
         Plots of the functions and distributions were prepared in <a href="http://www.w3.org/" target="_top">W3C</a>
         standard <a href="http://www.svg.org/" target="_top">Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)</a>
         format using a program created by Jacob Voytko during a <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2007/" target="_top">Google
         Summer of Code (2007)</a>. Since browser support for rendering SVG is
         still not universal (Microsoft Internet Explorer, even IE 8 beta, still lacks
         native SVG support but can be made to work with <a href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/" target="_top">Adobe's
         free SVG viewer</a> plugin), so the SVG files were batch converted to
         JPEG using <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/" target="_top">Inkscape</a>.
       </p>
 <p>
         We are also indebted to Matthias Schabel for managing the formal Boost-review
         of this library, and to all the reviewers - including Guillaume Melquiond,
         Arnaldur Gylfason, John Phillips, Stephan Tolksdorf and Jeff Garland - for
         their many helpful comments.
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         Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
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	<p>
	Hubert Holin started the Boost.Math library. The inverse hyperbolic functions,
	and the sinus cardinal functions are his.
	</p>
	<p>
	John Maddock started this library, the beta, gamma, erf, polynomial, and
	factorial functions are his, as is the "Toolkit" section, and many
	of the statistical distributions.
	</p>
	<p>
	Paul A. Bristow threw down the challenge in <a href="http://www2.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2004/n1668.pdf" target="_top">A
	Proposal to add Mathematical Functions for Statistics to the C++ Standard
	Library</a> to add the key math functions, especially those essential
	for statistics. After JM accepted and solved the difficult problems, not
	only numerically, but in full C++ template style, PAB implemented a few of
	the statistical distributions. PAB also tirelessly proof-read everything
	that JM threw at him (so that all remaining editorial mistakes are his fault).
	</p>
	<p>
	Xiaogang Zhang worked on the Bessel functions and elliptic integrals for
	his Google Summer of Code project 2006.
	</p>
	<p>
	Bruno Lalande submitted the "compile time power of a runtime base"
	code.
	</p>
	<p>
	Johan Råde wrote the optimised floating point classification code.
	</p>
	<p>
	Gautam Sewani coded the logistic distribution as part of a Google Summer
	of Code project 2008.
	</p>
	<p>
	M. A. (Thijs) van den Berg coded the Laplace distribution. (Thijs has also
	threatened to implement some multivariate distributions).
	</p>
	<p>
	Thomas Mang requested the inverse gamma in chi squared distributions for
	Bayesian applications and helped in their implementation.
	</p>
	<p>
	Professor Nico Temme for advice on the inverse incomplete beta function.
	</p>
	<p>
	<a href="http://www.shoup.net" target="_top">Victor Shoup for NTL</a>, without which
	it would have much more difficult to produce high accuracy constants, and
	especially the tables of accurate values for testing.
	</p>
	<p>
	We are grateful to Joel Guzman for helping us stress-test his <a href="http://www.boost.org/tools/quickbook/index.htm" target="_top">Boost.Quickbook</a>
	program used to generate the html and pdf versions of this document, adding
	several new features en route.
	</p>
	<p>
	Thanks to Mark Coleman and Georgi Boshnakov for spot test values from <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html" target="_top">Wolfram Mathematica</a>,
	and of course, to Eric Weissten for nurturing <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com" target="_top">Wolfram
	MathWorld</a>, an invaluable resource.
	</p>
	<p>
	Plots of the functions and distributions were prepared in <a href="http://www.w3.org/" target="_top">W3C</a>
	standard <a href="http://www.svg.org/" target="_top">Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)</a>
	format using a program created by Jacob Voytko during a <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2007/" target="_top">Google
	Summer of Code (2007)</a>. Since browser support for rendering SVG is
	still not universal (Microsoft Internet Explorer, even IE 8 beta, still lacks
	native SVG support but can be made to work with <a href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/" target="_top">Adobe's
	free SVG viewer</a> plugin), so the SVG files were batch converted to
	JPEG using <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/" target="_top">Inkscape</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	We are also indebted to Matthias Schabel for managing the formal Boost-review
	of this library, and to all the reviewers - including Guillaume Melquiond,
	Arnaldur Gylfason, John Phillips, Stephan Tolksdorf and Jeff Garland - for
	their many helpful comments.
	</p>
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	Hubert Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno Lalande, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani and
	Thijs van den Berg<p>
	Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
	file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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