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<HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="white"> <PRE> <FONT color="green">001</FONT> /*<a name="line.1"></a> <FONT color="green">002</FONT> * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more<a name="line.2"></a> <FONT color="green">003</FONT> * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with<a name="line.3"></a> <FONT color="green">004</FONT> * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.<a name="line.4"></a> <FONT color="green">005</FONT> * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0<a name="line.5"></a> <FONT color="green">006</FONT> * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with<a name="line.6"></a> <FONT color="green">007</FONT> * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at<a name="line.7"></a> <FONT color="green">008</FONT> *<a name="line.8"></a> <FONT color="green">009</FONT> * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0<a name="line.9"></a> <FONT color="green">010</FONT> *<a name="line.10"></a> <FONT color="green">011</FONT> * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software<a name="line.11"></a> <FONT color="green">012</FONT> * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,<a name="line.12"></a> <FONT color="green">013</FONT> * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.<a name="line.13"></a> <FONT color="green">014</FONT> * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and<a name="line.14"></a> <FONT color="green">015</FONT> * limitations under the License.<a name="line.15"></a> <FONT color="green">016</FONT> */<a name="line.16"></a> <FONT color="green">017</FONT> package org.apache.commons.math.distribution;<a name="line.17"></a> <FONT color="green">018</FONT> <a name="line.18"></a> <FONT color="green">019</FONT> import org.apache.commons.math.MathException;<a name="line.19"></a> <FONT color="green">020</FONT> <a name="line.20"></a> <FONT color="green">021</FONT> /**<a name="line.21"></a> <FONT color="green">022</FONT> * <p>Base interface for continuous distributions.</p><a name="line.22"></a> <FONT color="green">023</FONT> *<a name="line.23"></a> <FONT color="green">024</FONT> * <p>Note: this interface will be extended in version 3.0 to include<a name="line.24"></a> <FONT color="green">025</FONT> * <br/><code>public double density(double x)</code><br/><a name="line.25"></a> <FONT color="green">026</FONT> * that is, from version 3.0 forward, continuous distributions <strong>must</strong><a name="line.26"></a> <FONT color="green">027</FONT> * include implementations of probability density functions. As of version<a name="line.27"></a> <FONT color="green">028</FONT> * 2.1, all continuous distribution implementations included in commons-math<a name="line.28"></a> <FONT color="green">029</FONT> * provide implementations of this method.</p><a name="line.29"></a> <FONT color="green">030</FONT> *<a name="line.30"></a> <FONT color="green">031</FONT> * @version $Revision: 924362 $ $Date: 2010-03-17 12:45:31 -0400 (Wed, 17 Mar 2010) $<a name="line.31"></a> <FONT color="green">032</FONT> */<a name="line.32"></a> <FONT color="green">033</FONT> public interface ContinuousDistribution extends Distribution {<a name="line.33"></a> <FONT color="green">034</FONT> <a name="line.34"></a> <FONT color="green">035</FONT> /**<a name="line.35"></a> <FONT color="green">036</FONT> * For this distribution, X, this method returns x such that P(X &lt; x) = p.<a name="line.36"></a> <FONT color="green">037</FONT> * @param p the cumulative probability.<a name="line.37"></a> <FONT color="green">038</FONT> * @return x.<a name="line.38"></a> <FONT color="green">039</FONT> * @throws MathException if the inverse cumulative probability can not be<a name="line.39"></a> <FONT color="green">040</FONT> * computed due to convergence or other numerical errors.<a name="line.40"></a> <FONT color="green">041</FONT> */<a name="line.41"></a> <FONT color="green">042</FONT> double inverseCumulativeProbability(double p) throws MathException;<a name="line.42"></a> <FONT color="green">043</FONT> }<a name="line.43"></a> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>