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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.distribution;

import org.apache.commons.math.MathException;

/**
 * Computes the cumulative, inverse cumulative and density functions for the beta distribuiton.
 *
 * @see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_distribution">Beta_distribution</a>
 * @version $Revision: 920852 $ $Date: 2010-03-09 13:53:44 +0100 (mar. 09 mars 2010) $
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface BetaDistribution extends ContinuousDistribution, HasDensity<Double> {
    /**
     * Modify the shape parameter, alpha.
     * @param alpha the new shape parameter.
     * @deprecated as of 2.1
     */
    @Deprecated
    void setAlpha(double alpha);

     /**
      * Access the shape parameter, alpha
      * @return alpha.
      */
     double getAlpha();

     /**
      * Modify the shape parameter, beta.
      * @param beta the new scale parameter.
      * @deprecated as of 2.1
      */
     @Deprecated
     void setBeta(double beta);

     /**
      * Access the shape parameter, beta
      * @return beta.
      */
     double getBeta();

     /**
      * Return the probability density for a particular point.
      * @param x  The point at which the density should be computed.
      * @return  The pdf at point x.
      * @exception MathException if probability density cannot be computed
      */
     double density(Double x) throws MathException;

}