commit fe78ba855a50c1f83e449d63d32e754bc988595a Author: George Kadianakis desnacked@riseup.net Date: Tue Mar 12 19:04:27 2019 +0200

prob_distr: Better document our public API. --- src/lib/math/prob_distr.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/math/prob_distr.c b/src/lib/math/prob_distr.c index 2dff9e76e..bfad06963 100644 --- a/src/lib/math/prob_distr.c +++ b/src/lib/math/prob_distr.c @@ -1316,40 +1316,48 @@ sample_geometric(uint32_t s, double p0, double p)

/** Public API for probability distributions: * - * For each probability distribution we define each public functions - * (sample/cdf/sf/icdf/isf) as part of its dist_ops structure. + * These are wrapper functions on top of the various probability distribution + * operations using the generic <b>dist</b> structure. + + * These are the functions that should be used by consumers of this API. */

+/** Returns the name of the distribution in <b>dist</b>. */ const char * dist_name(const struct dist *dist) { return dist->ops->name; }

+/* Sample a value from <b>dist</b> and return it. */ double dist_sample(const struct dist *dist) { return dist->ops->sample(dist); }

+/** Compute the CDF of <b>dist</b> at <b>x</b>. */ double dist_cdf(const struct dist *dist, double x) { return dist->ops->cdf(dist, x); }

+/** Compute the SF (Survival function) of <b>dist</b> at <b>x</b>. */ double dist_sf(const struct dist *dist, double x) { return dist->ops->sf(dist, x); }

+/** Compute the iCDF (Inverse CDF) of <b>dist</b> at <b>x</b>. */ double dist_icdf(const struct dist *dist, double p) { return dist->ops->icdf(dist, p); }

+/** Compute the iSF (Inverse Survival function) of <b>dist</b> at <b>x</b>. */ double dist_isf(const struct dist *dist, double p) { @@ -1419,6 +1427,10 @@ const struct dist_ops uniform_ops = { .isf = uniform_isf, };

+/*******************************************************************/ + +/** Private functions for each probability distribution. */ + /** Functions for logistic distribution: */

static double