<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Summary</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"> <link rel="home" href="../../../../index.html" title="Math Toolkit"> <link rel="up" href="../overview.html" title="Overview of Distributions"> <link rel="prev" href="parameters.html" title="Parameters can be calculated"> <link rel="next" href="../weg.html" title="Worked Examples"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="parameters.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../overview.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="../weg.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h5 class="title"> <a name="math_toolkit.dist.stat_tut.overview.summary"></a><a class="link" href="summary.html" title="Summary"> Summary</a> </h5></div></div></div> <div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"> <li> Distributions are objects, which are constructed from whatever parameters the distribution may have. </li> <li> Member functions allow you to retrieve the parameters of a distribution. </li> <li> Generic non-member functions provide access to the properties that are common to all the distributions (PDF, CDF, quantile etc). </li> <li> Complements of probabilities are calculated by wrapping the function's arguments in a call to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">complement</span><span class="special">(...)</span></code>. </li> <li> Functions that accept a probability can accept a complement of the probability as well, by wrapping the function's arguments in a call to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">complement</span><span class="special">(...)</span></code>. </li> <li> Static member functions allow the parameters of a distribution to be found from other information. </li> </ul></div> <p> Now that you have the basics, the next section looks at some worked examples. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006 , 2007, 2008, 2009 John Maddock, Paul A. Bristow, Hubert Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno Lalande, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani and Thijs van den Berg<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="parameters.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../overview.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="../weg.html"><img src="../../../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>