repicea.stats.estimators

Interface Estimator

All Known Implementing Classes:

MaximumLikelihoodEstimator, OLSEstimator

public interface Estimator

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	Estimator.EstimatorException The EstimatorException class encompasses all the exception that can be thrown when the optimizer fails to reach convergence.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	doEstimation(StatisticalModel<? extends StatisticalDataStructure> model)
Estimate<?>	getParameterEstimates() This method returns the parameter estimates.
boolean	isConvergenceAchieved() This method returns true if the estimator successfully estimated the parameters.

Method Detail

doEstimation

boolean doEstimation(StatisticalModel<? extends StatisticalDataStructure> model)
              throws Estimator.EstimatorException

Throws:

Estimator.EstimatorException

isConvergenceAchieved

boolean isConvergenceAchieved()

This method returns true if the estimator successfully estimated the parameters.

Returns:

a boolean

getParameterEstimates

Estimate<?> getParameterEstimates()

This method returns the parameter estimates.

Returns:

an Estimate instance