org.apache.commons.math.distribution
Interface ContinuousDistribution

All Superinterfaces:
Distribution
All Known Subinterfaces:
CauchyDistribution, ChiSquaredDistribution, ExponentialDistribution, FDistribution, GammaDistribution, NormalDistribution, TDistribution, WeibullDistribution
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractContinuousDistribution, CauchyDistributionImpl, ChiSquaredDistributionImpl, ExponentialDistributionImpl, FDistributionImpl, GammaDistributionImpl, NormalDistributionImpl, TDistributionImpl, WeibullDistributionImpl

public interface ContinuousDistribution
extends Distribution

Base interface for continuous distributions.

Version:
$Revision: 480440 $ $Date: 2006-11-29 00:14:12 -0700 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006) $

Method Summary
 double inverseCumulativeProbability(double p)
          For this disbution, X, this method returns x such that P(X < x) = p.
 
Methods inherited from interface org.apache.commons.math.distribution.Distribution
cumulativeProbability, cumulativeProbability
 

Method Detail

inverseCumulativeProbability

double inverseCumulativeProbability(double p)
                                    throws MathException
For this disbution, X, this method returns x such that P(X < x) = p.

Parameters:
p - the cumulative probability.
Returns:
x.
Throws:
MathException - if the inverse cumulative probability can not be computed due to convergence or other numerical errors.