source: src/main/java/weka/estimators/UnivariateDensityEstimator.java @ 6

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/*
 *    UnivariateDensityEstimator.java
 *    Copyright (C) 2009 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.estimators;

/**
 * Interface that can be implemented by simple weighted univariate
 * density estimators.
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 5680 $
 */
public interface UnivariateDensityEstimator {

  /**
   * Adds a value to the density estimator.
   *
   * @param value the value to add
   * @param weight the weight of the value
   */
  void addValue(double value, double weight);

  /**
   * Returns the natural logarithm of the density estimate at the given
   * point.
   *
   * @param value the value at which to evaluate
   * @return the natural logarithm of the density estimate at the given
   * value
   */
  double logDensity(double value);
}