UniformProposal.h

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// @(#)root/roostats:$Id$
// Authors: Kevin Belasco        17/06/2009
// Authors: Kyle Cranmer         17/06/2009
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#ifndef ROOSTATS_UniformProposal
#define ROOSTATS_UniformProposal
 
#include "Rtypes.h"
 
#include "RooStats/ProposalFunction.h"
 
#include "RooArgSet.h"
#include "RooMsgService.h"
#include "RooRealVar.h"
 
namespace RooStats {
 
   class UniformProposal : public ProposalFunction {
 
   public:
      UniformProposal() : ProposalFunction() {}
 
      /// Populate xPrime with a new proposed point
      void Propose(RooArgSet& xPrime, RooArgSet& x) override;
 
      /// Determine whether or not the proposal density is symmetric for
      /// points x1 and x2 - that is, whether the probability of reaching x2
      /// from x1 is equal to the probability of reaching x1 from x2
      bool IsSymmetric(RooArgSet& x1, RooArgSet& x2) override;
 
      /// Return the probability of proposing the point x1 given the starting
      /// point x2
      double GetProposalDensity(RooArgSet& x1, RooArgSet& x2) override;
 
      ClassDefOverride(UniformProposal,1) // A concrete implementation of ProposalFunction, that uniformly samples the parameter space.
   };
}
 
#endif