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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> <a name="line.17"></a> <FONT color="green">018</FONT> package org.apache.commons.math.estimation;<a name="line.18"></a> <FONT color="green">019</FONT> <a name="line.19"></a> <FONT color="green">020</FONT> /**<a name="line.20"></a> <FONT color="green">021</FONT> * This interface represents an estimation problem.<a name="line.21"></a> <FONT color="green">022</FONT> *<a name="line.22"></a> <FONT color="green">023</FONT> * <p>This interface should be implemented by all real estimation<a name="line.23"></a> <FONT color="green">024</FONT> * problems before they can be handled by the estimators through the<a name="line.24"></a> <FONT color="green">025</FONT> * {@link Estimator#estimate Estimator.estimate} method.</p><a name="line.25"></a> <FONT color="green">026</FONT> *<a name="line.26"></a> <FONT color="green">027</FONT> * <p>An estimation problem, as seen by a solver is a set of<a name="line.27"></a> <FONT color="green">028</FONT> * parameters and a set of measurements. The parameters are adjusted<a name="line.28"></a> <FONT color="green">029</FONT> * during the estimation through the {@link #getUnboundParameters<a name="line.29"></a> <FONT color="green">030</FONT> * getUnboundParameters} and {@link EstimatedParameter#setEstimate<a name="line.30"></a> <FONT color="green">031</FONT> * EstimatedParameter.setEstimate} methods. The measurements both have<a name="line.31"></a> <FONT color="green">032</FONT> * a measured value which is generally fixed at construction and a<a name="line.32"></a> <FONT color="green">033</FONT> * theoretical value which depends on the model and hence varies as<a name="line.33"></a> <FONT color="green">034</FONT> * the parameters are adjusted. The purpose of the solver is to reduce<a name="line.34"></a> <FONT color="green">035</FONT> * the residual between these values, it can retrieve the measurements<a name="line.35"></a> <FONT color="green">036</FONT> * through the {@link #getMeasurements getMeasurements} method.</p><a name="line.36"></a> <FONT color="green">037</FONT> *<a name="line.37"></a> <FONT color="green">038</FONT> * @see Estimator<a name="line.38"></a> <FONT color="green">039</FONT> * @see WeightedMeasurement<a name="line.39"></a> <FONT color="green">040</FONT> *<a name="line.40"></a> <FONT color="green">041</FONT> * @version $Revision: 811786 $ $Date: 2009-09-06 05:36:08 -0400 (Sun, 06 Sep 2009) $<a name="line.41"></a> <FONT color="green">042</FONT> * @since 1.2<a name="line.42"></a> <FONT color="green">043</FONT> * @deprecated as of 2.0, everything in package org.apache.commons.math.estimation has<a name="line.43"></a> <FONT color="green">044</FONT> * been deprecated and replaced by package org.apache.commons.math.optimization.general<a name="line.44"></a> <FONT color="green">045</FONT> *<a name="line.45"></a> <FONT color="green">046</FONT> */<a name="line.46"></a> <FONT color="green">047</FONT> @Deprecated<a name="line.47"></a> <FONT color="green">048</FONT> public interface EstimationProblem {<a name="line.48"></a> <FONT color="green">049</FONT> <a name="line.49"></a> <FONT color="green">050</FONT> /**<a name="line.50"></a> <FONT color="green">051</FONT> * Get the measurements of an estimation problem.<a name="line.51"></a> <FONT color="green">052</FONT> * @return measurements<a name="line.52"></a> <FONT color="green">053</FONT> */<a name="line.53"></a> <FONT color="green">054</FONT> WeightedMeasurement[] getMeasurements();<a name="line.54"></a> <FONT color="green">055</FONT> <a name="line.55"></a> <FONT color="green">056</FONT> /**<a name="line.56"></a> <FONT color="green">057</FONT> * Get the unbound parameters of the problem.<a name="line.57"></a> <FONT color="green">058</FONT> * @return unbound parameters<a name="line.58"></a> <FONT color="green">059</FONT> */<a name="line.59"></a> <FONT color="green">060</FONT> EstimatedParameter[] getUnboundParameters();<a name="line.60"></a> <FONT color="green">061</FONT> <a name="line.61"></a> <FONT color="green">062</FONT> /**<a name="line.62"></a> <FONT color="green">063</FONT> * Get all the parameters of the problem.<a name="line.63"></a> <FONT color="green">064</FONT> * @return parameters<a name="line.64"></a> <FONT color="green">065</FONT> */<a name="line.65"></a> <FONT color="green">066</FONT> EstimatedParameter[] getAllParameters();<a name="line.66"></a> <FONT color="green">067</FONT> <a name="line.67"></a> <FONT color="green">068</FONT> }<a name="line.68"></a> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>