Package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling

Class CombinationSampler

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.CombinationSampler

All Implemented Interfaces:

SharedStateSampler<CombinationSampler>

public class CombinationSampler
extends java.lang.Object
implements SharedStateSampler<CombinationSampler>

Class for representing combinations of a sequence of integers.

A combination is a selection of items from a collection, such that (unlike permutations) the order of selection does not matter. This sampler can be used to generate a combination in an unspecified order and is faster than the corresponding PermutationSampler.

Note that the sample order is unspecified. For example a sample combination of 2 from 4 may return [0,1] or [1,0] as the two are equivalent, and the order of a given combination may change in subsequent samples.

The sampler can be used to generate indices to select subsets where the order of the subset is not important.

Sampling uses UniformRandomProvider.nextInt(int).

See Also:

PermutationSampler

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CombinationSampler(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng, int n, int k)	Creates a generator of combinations.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int[]	sample()	Return a combination of k whose entries are selected randomly, without repetition, from the integers 0, 1, ..., n-1 (inclusive).
CombinationSampler	withUniformRandomProvider(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng)	Create a new instance of the sampler with the same underlying state using the given uniform random provider as the source of randomness.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CombinationSampler

public CombinationSampler(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng,
                          int n,
                          int k)

Creates a generator of combinations.

The sample() method will generate an integer array of length k whose entries are selected randomly, without repetition, from the integers 0, 1, ..., n-1 (inclusive). The returned array represents a combination of n taken k.

In contrast to a permutation, the returned array is not guaranteed to be in a random order. The sample() method returns the array in an unspecified order.

If n <= 0 or k <= 0 or k > n then no combination is required and an exception is raised.

Parameters:

rng - Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.

n - Domain of the combination.

k - Size of the combination.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if n <= 0 or k <= 0 or k > n.

Method Detail

sample

public int[] sample()

Return a combination of k whose entries are selected randomly, without repetition, from the integers 0, 1, ..., n-1 (inclusive).

The order of the returned array is not guaranteed to be in a random order as the order of a combination does not matter.

Returns:

a random combination.

withUniformRandomProvider

public CombinationSampler withUniformRandomProvider(org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider rng)

Create a new instance of the sampler with the same underlying state using the given uniform random provider as the source of randomness.

Specified by:

withUniformRandomProvider in interface SharedStateSampler<CombinationSampler>

Parameters:

rng - Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.

Returns:

the sampler

Since:

1.3