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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.estimation;
+
+/**
+ * This interface represents an estimation problem.
+ *
+ * <p>This interface should be implemented by all real estimation
+ * problems before they can be handled by the estimators through the
+ * {@link Estimator#estimate Estimator.estimate} method.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>An estimation problem, as seen by a solver is a set of
+ * parameters and a set of measurements. The parameters are adjusted
+ * during the estimation through the {@link #getUnboundParameters
+ * getUnboundParameters} and {@link EstimatedParameter#setEstimate
+ * EstimatedParameter.setEstimate} methods. The measurements both have
+ * a measured value which is generally fixed at construction and a
+ * theoretical value which depends on the model and hence varies as
+ * the parameters are adjusted. The purpose of the solver is to reduce
+ * the residual between these values, it can retrieve the measurements
+ * through the {@link #getMeasurements getMeasurements} method.</p>
+ *
+ * @see Estimator
+ * @see WeightedMeasurement
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 811786 $ $Date: 2009-09-06 11:36:08 +0200 (dim. 06 sept. 2009) $
+ * @since 1.2
+ * @deprecated as of 2.0, everything in package org.apache.commons.math.estimation has
+ * been deprecated and replaced by package org.apache.commons.math.optimization.general
+ *
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface EstimationProblem {
+
+    /**
+     * Get the measurements of an estimation problem.
+     * @return measurements
+     */
+    WeightedMeasurement[] getMeasurements();
+
+    /**
+     * Get the unbound parameters of the problem.
+     * @return unbound parameters
+     */
+    EstimatedParameter[] getUnboundParameters();
+
+    /**
+     * Get all the parameters of the problem.
+     * @return parameters
+     */
+    EstimatedParameter[] getAllParameters();
+
+}