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// Authors: L. Moneta, A. Zsenei   08/2005

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// Header file for class Interpolator
//
// Created by: moneta  at Fri Nov 26 15:00:25 2004
//
// Last update: Fri Nov 26 15:00:25 2004
//
#ifndef ROOT_Math_Interpolator
#define ROOT_Math_Interpolator

#include "Math/InterpolationTypes.h"

#include <vector>
#include <string>

/**
@defgroup Interpolation Interpolation
*/


namespace ROOT {
namespace Math {


  class GSLInterpolator;

  /**
     Class for performing function interpolation of points.
     The class is instantiated with an interpolation methods, passed as an enumeration in the constructor.
     See Interpolation::Type for the available interpolation algorithms, which are implemented using GSL.
     See also the <A HREF=http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref_26.html#SEC391">GSL manual</A> for more information.
     The class provides additional methods for computing derivatives and integrals of interpolating functions.

     This class does not support copying.
     @ingroup Interpolation
  */

  class Interpolator {

  public:
    /**
       Constructs an interpolator class from vector of data points \f$ (x_i, y_i )\f$ and with Interpolation::Type type.
       The method will compute a continous interpolating function \f$ y(x) \f$ such that \f$ y_i = y ( x_i )\f$.
     */
    Interpolator(const std::vector<double> & x, const std::vector<double> & y, Interpolation::Type type = Interpolation::POLYNOMIAL);

    virtual ~Interpolator();

  private:
    // usually copying is non trivial, so we make this unaccessible
    Interpolator(const Interpolator &);
    Interpolator & operator = (const Interpolator &);

  public:

    /**
       Return the interpolated value at point x
     */
    double Eval( double x ) const;

    /**
       Return the derivative of the interpolated function at point x
     */
    double Deriv( double x ) const;

    /**
       Return the second derivative of the interpolated function at point x
     */
    double Deriv2( double x ) const;

    /**
       Return the Integral of the interpolated function over the range [a,b]
     */
    double Integ( double a, double b) const;

    /**
       Return the type of interpolation method
     */
    std::string TypeGet() const;

  protected:


  private:

    GSLInterpolator * fInterp;

  };

} // namespace Math
} // namespace ROOT


#endif /* ROOT_Math_Interpolator */


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