RateDistributionFactory.h

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//
// File: RateDistributionFactory.h
// Created by: Julien Dutheil
//             Vincent Ranwez
// Created on: Fri apr 14 11:11 2006
//

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#ifndef _RATEDISTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_
#define _RATEDISTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_

#include <Bpp/Numeric/Prob/DiscreteDistribution.h>

// From the STL:
#include <string>

namespace bpp
{

class RateDistributionFactory
{
public:
  static const std::string CONSTANT_DISTRIBUTION;
  static const std::string GAMMA_DISTRIBUTION;
  static const std::string GAUSSIAN_DISTRIBUTION;
  static const std::string EXPONENTIAL_DISTRIBUTION;

private:
  unsigned int nbClasses_; // For discrete distributions. 
  
public:
  RateDistributionFactory(unsigned int nbClasses = 4): nbClasses_(nbClasses) {}
  virtual ~RateDistributionFactory() {}

public:
  virtual DiscreteDistribution* createDiscreteDistribution(const std::string& distName, unsigned int nbClasses) throw (Exception);
  virtual DiscreteDistribution* createDiscreteDistribution(const std::string& distName) throw (Exception)
  {
    return createDiscreteDistribution(distName, nbClasses_);
  }

};

} //end of namespace bpp.

#endif //_RATEDISTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_