be.ac.ulg.montefiore.run.distributions
Interface RandomDistribution

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExponentialDistribution, GaussianDistribution, GaussianMixtureDistribution

public interface RandomDistribution
extends java.io.Serializable

This interface must be implemented by all the package's classes implementing a mono-variate random distribution. Distributions are not mutable.

Method Summary

double	generate() Generates a pseudo-random number.
double	probability(double n) Returns the probability (density) of a given number.

Method Detail

generate

double generate()

Generates a pseudo-random number. The numbers generated by this function are drawn according to the pseudo-random distribution described by the object that implements it.

Returns:

A pseudo-random number.

probability

double probability(double n)

Returns the probability (density) of a given number.

Parameters:

n - A number.