On 10/29/11 9:07 AM, cwinter wrote: > cwinter wrote: >> [...] Regarding IntergerDistribution I don't have a preference on leaving >> it in the current hierarchy or making it to a new root. >> >> Christian >> > Just now, while pulling inverseCumulativeProbability form > ContinuousDistribution up to Distribution, I got a conflict with > IntegerDistribution: IntegerDistribution.inverseCumulativeProbability wants > to return int which doesn't fit to the return type double of > Distribution.inverseCumulativeProbability. > Either the return type has to be changed to double for all integer > distributions - which is quite annoying - or we need to pull > IntegerDistribution out of the hierachy - which is my favorite now. For the > case that there is a requirement for embedding the domain into the reals, we > could implement the procedure IntegerDistribution.toDiscreteDistribution() > returning the appropriate DiscreteDistribution.
I would say pull DiscreteDistribution out. That is where the difference really lies. I have thought about suggesting that we eliminate it altogether; but I still think there may be value in supporting discrete distributions over sample spaces that are not embedded in the integers. Phil > > Best Regards, > Christian > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/math-Distributions-over-sample-spaces-other-than-R-tp3931349p3951113.html > Sent from the Commons - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
