Ted Dunning wrote: > Inverse CDF methods work for discrete distributions as well as continuous > ones.
Thanks. That's what I was missing. I would still rather see the implementations in the random package and for common distributions, e.g. Poisson, pick a method that is well-suited for the distribution. Phil > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> If not, I would create a public interface >>> DistributionWithInverseCumulativeProbability (who has a better name?) >>> with the method inverseCumulativeProbability (right now it's on >>> ContinuousDistribution and some other subclasses and don't seem to be >>> gathered in an interface) and all the distributions with the >>> inverseCumulativeProbability-method should implement this interface. >> I am not following you here. What exactly is the difference between >> DistributionWithInverseCumulativeProbability and >> ContinuousDistribution? >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
