/*
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
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any later version.

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*/
package statistics.distributions;

/**The discrete uniform distribution on a finite set*/
public class UniformDistribution extends Distribution{
	double values;

	public UniformDistribution(double a, double b){
		setParameters(a, b);
	}

	public UniformDistribution(){
		setParameters(0, 1);
	}

	public void setParameters(double a, double b){
		super.setParameters(a, b, 0.01, CONTINUOUS);
	}

	public double getDensity(double x){
		if (getDomain().getLowerValue() <= x & x <= getDomain().getUpperValue()) 
			return 1.0 / getDomain().getSize();
		else return 0;
	}

	public double getMaxDensity(){
		return 1.0 / getDomain().getSize();
	}

	public double simulate(){
		return getDomain().getLowerValue() + RNG.nextDouble()*(getDomain().getUpperValue()-getDomain().getLowerValue());
	}
}

