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The Math project is a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common practical problems not immediately available in the Java programming language or commons-lang.

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package org.apache.commons.math.distribution;

/**
 * The Pascal distribution.  The Pascal distribution is a special case of the
 * Negative Binomial distribution where the number of successes parameter is an
 * integer.
 * 
 * There are various ways to express the probability mass and distribution
 * functions for the Pascal distribution.  The convention employed by the
 * library is to express these functions in terms of the number of failures in
 * a Bernoulli experiment [2].
 *
 * 
 * References:
 * 
 * 
 * Negative Binomial Distribution
 * Waiting Time in a Bernoulli Process
 * 
 * 
 *
 * @version $Revision: 670469 $ $Date: 2008-06-23 04:01:38 -0400 (Mon, 23 Jun 2008) $
 * @since 1.2
 */
public interface PascalDistribution extends IntegerDistribution {
    /**
     * Access the number of successes for this distribution.
     * 
     * @return the number of successes
     */
    int getNumberOfSuccesses();
    
    /**
     * Access the probability of success for this distribution.
     * 
     * @return the probability of success
     */
    double getProbabilityOfSuccess();
    
    /**
     * Change the number of successes for this distribution.
     * 
     * @param successes the new number of successes
     */
    void setNumberOfSuccesses(int successes);
    
    /**
     * Change the probability of success for this distribution.
     * 
     * @param p the new probability of success
     */
    void setProbabilityOfSuccess(double p);
}