/* 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; /**The Poisson distribution with a specified rate parameter*/ public class PoissonDistribution extends Distribution{ //Variables double parameter; /**Default constructor: creates a new Poisson distribution with a given parameter value*/ public PoissonDistribution(double r){ setParameter(r); } /**Default constructor: creates a new Poisson distribtiton with parameter 1*/ public PoissonDistribution(){ this(1); } /**Sets the parameter*/ public void setParameter(double r){ //Correct for invalid parameter: if(r < 0) r = 1; parameter = r; //Sets the truncated set of values double a = Math.ceil(getMean() - 4 * getSD()), b = Math.ceil(getMean() + 4 * getSD()); if (a < 0) a = 0; super.setParameters(a, b, 1, DISCRETE); } /**Parameter*/ public double getParameter(){ return parameter; } /**Density function*/ public double getDensity(double x){ int k = (int)Math.rint(x); if(k < 0) return 0; else return Math.exp(-parameter) * (Math.pow(parameter, k) / factorial(k)); } /**Maximum value of the getDensity function*/ public double getMaxDensity(){ double mode = Math.floor(parameter); return getDensity(mode); } /**Cumulative distribution function*/ public double getCDF(double x){ return 1 - gammaCDF(parameter, x + 1); } /**Mean*/ public double getMean(){ return parameter; } /**Variance*/ public double getVariance(){ return parameter; } /**Simulate a value*/ public double simulate(){ int arrivals = 0; double sum = -Math.log(1 - Math.random()); while (sum <= parameter){ arrivals++; sum = sum - Math.log(1 - Math.random()); } return arrivals; } }