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27 | <a name="math_toolkit.pol_tutorial.ad_hoc_dist_policies"></a><a class="link" href="ad_hoc_dist_policies.html" title="Setting Policies for Distributions on an Ad Hoc Basis">Setting | |
28 | Policies for Distributions on an Ad Hoc Basis</a> | |
29 | </h3></div></div></div> | |
30 | <p> | |
31 | All of the statistical distributions in this library are class templates | |
32 | that accept two template parameters: real type (float, double ...) and policy | |
33 | (how to handle exceptional events), both with sensible defaults, for example: | |
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35 | <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span> | |
36 | ||
37 | <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">RealType</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="keyword">double</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">Policy</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policy</span><span class="special"><></span> <span class="special">></span> | |
38 | <span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">fisher_f_distribution</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
39 | ||
40 | <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">fisher_f_distribution</span><span class="special"><></span> <span class="identifier">fisher_f</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
41 | ||
42 | <span class="special">}}</span> | |
43 | </pre> | |
44 | <p> | |
45 | This policy gets used by all the accessor functions that accept a distribution | |
46 | as an argument, and forwarded to all the functions called by these. So if | |
47 | you use the shorthand-typedef for the distribution, then you get <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code> precision arithmetic and all the default | |
48 | policies. | |
49 | </p> | |
50 | <p> | |
51 | However, say for example we wanted to evaluate the quantile of the binomial | |
52 | distribution at float precision, without internal promotion to double, and | |
53 | with the result rounded to the <span class="emphasis"><em>nearest</em></span> integer, then | |
54 | here's how it can be done: | |
55 | </p> | |
56 | <pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">distributions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">binomial</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span> | |
57 | <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">binomial_distribution</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
58 | ||
59 | <span class="comment">// Begin by defining a policy type, that gives the behaviour we want:</span> | |
60 | ||
61 | <span class="comment">//using namespace boost::math::policies; or explicitly</span> | |
62 | <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policy</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
63 | ||
64 | <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">promote_float</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
65 | <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">discrete_quantile</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
66 | <span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">integer_round_nearest</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
67 | ||
68 | <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">policy</span><span class="special"><</span> | |
69 | <span class="identifier">promote_float</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">false</span><span class="special">>,</span> <span class="comment">// Do not promote to double.</span> | |
70 | <span class="identifier">discrete_quantile</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">integer_round_nearest</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="comment">// Round result to nearest integer.</span> | |
71 | <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">mypolicy</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
72 | <span class="comment">//</span> | |
73 | <span class="comment">// Then define a new distribution that uses it:</span> | |
74 | <span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">binomial_distribution</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">float</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">mypolicy</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">mybinom</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
75 | ||
76 | <span class="comment">// And now use it to get the quantile:</span> | |
77 | ||
78 | <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">main</span><span class="special">()</span> | |
79 | <span class="special">{</span> | |
80 | <span class="identifier">cout</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="string">"quantile(mybinom(200, 0.25), 0.05) is: "</span> <span class="special"><<</span> | |
81 | <span class="identifier">quantile</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">mybinom</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">200</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="number">0.25</span><span class="special">),</span> <span class="number">0.05</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">endl</span><span class="special">;</span> | |
82 | <span class="special">}</span> | |
83 | </pre> | |
84 | <p> | |
85 | Which outputs: | |
86 | </p> | |
87 | <pre class="programlisting">quantile is: 40</pre> | |
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