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Statistical sampling library for use in virtdata libraries, based on apache commons math 4

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package org.apache.commons.math4.linear;

import org.apache.commons.math4.FieldElement;

/**
 * This interface defines a visitor for the entries of a vector. Visitors
 * implementing this interface may alter the entries of the vector being
 * visited.
 *
 * @param  the type of the field elements
 * @since 3.3
 */
public interface FieldVectorChangingVisitor> {
    /**
     * Start visiting a vector. This method is called once, before any entry
     * of the vector is visited.
     *
     * @param dimension the size of the vector
     * @param start the index of the first entry to be visited
     * @param end the index of the last entry to be visited (inclusive)
     */
    void start(int dimension, int start, int end);

    /**
     * Visit one entry of the vector.
     *
     * @param index the index of the entry being visited
     * @param value the value of the entry being visited
     * @return the new value of the entry being visited
     */
    T visit(int index, T value);

    /**
     * End visiting a vector. This method is called once, after all entries of
     * the vector have been visited.
     *
     * @return the value returned after visiting all entries
     */
    T end();
}