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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.analysis.interpolation;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import org.apache.commons.math.MathException;
+import org.apache.commons.math.analysis.polynomials.PolynomialFunctionLagrangeForm;
+
+/**
+ * Implements the <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NevillesAlgorithm.html">
+ * Neville's Algorithm</a> for interpolation of real univariate functions. For
+ * reference, see <b>Introduction to Numerical Analysis</b>, ISBN 038795452X,
+ * chapter 2.
+ * <p>
+ * The actual code of Neville's evalution is in PolynomialFunctionLagrangeForm,
+ * this class provides an easy-to-use interface to it.</p>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 799857 $ $Date: 2009-08-01 15:07:12 +0200 (sam. 01 août 2009) $
+ * @since 1.2
+ */
+public class NevilleInterpolator implements UnivariateRealInterpolator,
+ Serializable {
+
+ /** serializable version identifier */
+ static final long serialVersionUID = 3003707660147873733L;
+
+ /**
+ * Computes an interpolating function for the data set.
+ *
+ * @param x the interpolating points array
+ * @param y the interpolating values array
+ * @return a function which interpolates the data set
+ * @throws MathException if arguments are invalid
+ */
+ public PolynomialFunctionLagrangeForm interpolate(double x[], double y[])
+ throws MathException {
+ return new PolynomialFunctionLagrangeForm(x, y);
+ }
+}