/* Copyright (C) 2001 Kyle Siegrist, Dawn Duehring This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ package distributions; /**This class applies a location-scale tranformation to a given distribution. In terms of * the corresponding random variable X, the transformation is Y = a + bX*/ public class LocationScaleDistribution extends Distribution{ private Distribution dist; private double location, scale; /**This general constructor creates a new location-scale transformation on a given distribuiton with given location and scale parameters*/ public LocationScaleDistribution(Distribution d, double a, double b){ setParameters(d, a, b); } /**This method sets the parameters: the distribution and the location and scale parameters*/ public void setParameters(Distribution d, double a, double b){ dist = d; location = a; scale = b; Domain domain = dist.getDomain(); double l, u, w = domain.getWidth(); int t = dist.getType(); if (t == DISCRETE){ l = domain.getLowerValue(); u = domain.getUpperValue(); } else{ l = domain.getLowerBound(); u = domain.getUpperBound(); } if (scale == 0) super.setParameters(location, location, 1, DISCRETE); else if (scale < 0) super.setParameters(location + scale * u, location + scale * l, -scale * w, t); else super.setParameters(location + scale * l, location + scale * u, scale * w, t); } /**This method defines the getDensity function*/ public double getDensity(double x){ if (scale == 0){ if (x == location) return 1; else return 0; } else return dist.getDensity((x - location) / scale); } /**This method returns the maximum value of the getDensity function*/ public double getMaxDensity(){ return dist.getMaxDensity(); } /**This mtehod returns the mean*/ public double getMean(){ return location + scale * dist.getMean(); } /**This method returns the variance*/ public double getVariance(){ return (scale * scale) * dist.getVariance(); } /**This method returns a simulated value from the distribution*/ public double simulate(){ return location + scale * dist.simulate(); } /**This method returns the cumulative distribution function*/ public double getCDF(double x){ if (scale > 0) return dist.getCDF((x - location) / scale); else return 1 - dist.getCDF((x - location) / scale); } /**This method returns the getQuantile function*/ public double getQuantile(double p){ if (scale > 0) return location + scale * dist.getQuantile(p); else return location + scale * dist.getQuantile(1 - p); } }