Package nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.distributions

Class DistContinuous

java.lang.Object

nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.distributions.Dist

nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.distributions.DistContinuous

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

DistBeta, DistConstant, DistEmpiricalDiscreteDouble, DistEmpiricalInterpolated, DistErlang, DistExponential, DistGamma, DistNormal, DistNormalTrunc, DistPearson5, DistPearson6, DistTriangular, DistUniform, DistWeibull

public abstract class DistContinuous
extends Dist

The Continuous distribution. For more information on this distribution see https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ContinuousDistribution.html

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Author:

Peter Jacobs , Alexander Verbraeck

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.distributions.Dist

stream

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DistContinuous(StreamInterface stream)	constructs a new continuous distribution.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract double	draw()	draws the next stream value according to the probability of this this distribution.
abstract double	getProbabilityDensity(double x)	returns the probability density value of a value x.

Methods inherited from class nl.tudelft.simulation.jstats.distributions.Dist

getStream, setStream

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

DistContinuous

public DistContinuous(StreamInterface stream)

constructs a new continuous distribution.

Parameters:

stream - StreamInterface; the stream

Method Details

draw

public abstract double draw()

draws the next stream value according to the probability of this this distribution.

Returns:

the next double value drawn.

getProbabilityDensity

public abstract double getProbabilityDensity(double x)

returns the probability density value of a value x.

Parameters:

x - double; the value for which the density function needs to be calculated

Returns:

double; the probability density for value x