001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.math.analysis.interpolation; 018 019 import org.apache.commons.math.MathException; 020 import org.apache.commons.math.analysis.UnivariateRealFunction; 021 022 /** 023 * Interface representing a univariate real interpolating function. 024 * 025 * @version $Revision: 799857 $ $Date: 2009-08-01 09:07:12 -0400 (Sat, 01 Aug 2009) $ 026 */ 027 public interface UnivariateRealInterpolator { 028 029 /** 030 * Computes an interpolating function for the data set. 031 * @param xval the arguments for the interpolation points 032 * @param yval the values for the interpolation points 033 * @return a function which interpolates the data set 034 * @throws MathException if arguments violate assumptions made by the 035 * interpolationg algorithm 036 */ 037 public UnivariateRealFunction interpolate(double xval[], double yval[]) 038 throws MathException; 039 }