Class edu.cornell.lassp.mck10.Hysteresis.RandField 
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Class edu.cornell.lassp.mck10.Hysteresis.RandField 

java.lang.Object
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public class RandField
extends Object
RandField is an abstract class for generating random fields. The getField method is left abstract. In subclasses, this method should be defined to produce random fields in different distributions, such as Gaussian or Lorenzian. This abstract class allows us to change distributions by just allocating our random number generator to be a different subclass, instead of having to use different function calls for different distributions.

Source Code is available.

Author:
Matt Kuntz (e-mail: mck10@cornell.edu)

Method Index

o getField(double)
getField(sd) returns a random field from some distribution of random numbers which has a width sd.

Methods

o getField 
  public abstract double getField(double sd)
getField(sd) returns a random field from some distribution of random numbers which has a width sd. It is left abstract, so that RandField can be subclassed for different distributions of random numbers.
Parameters:
sd - The width of the random number distribution. 
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