// @(#)root/roostats:$Id$
// Authors: Kevin Belasco        17/06/2009
// Authors: Kyle Cranmer         17/06/2009
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#ifndef ROOSTATS_UniformProposal
#define ROOSTATS_UniformProposal

#include "Rtypes.h"

#include "RooStats/ProposalFunction.h"

#include "RooArgSet.h"
#include "RooMsgService.h"
#include "RooRealVar.h"
#include "TIterator.h"

namespace RooStats {

   class UniformProposal : public ProposalFunction {

   public:
      UniformProposal() : ProposalFunction() {}

      /// Populate xPrime with a new proposed point
      virtual void Propose(RooArgSet& xPrime, RooArgSet& x);

      /// Determine whether or not the proposal density is symmetric for
      /// points x1 and x2 - that is, whether the probability of reaching x2
      /// from x1 is equal to the probability of reaching x1 from x2
      virtual Bool_t IsSymmetric(RooArgSet& x1, RooArgSet& x2);

      /// Return the probability of proposing the point x1 given the starting
      /// point x2
      virtual Double_t GetProposalDensity(RooArgSet& x1, RooArgSet& x2);

      virtual ~UniformProposal() {}

      ClassDef(UniformProposal,1) /// A concrete implementation of ProposalFunction, that uniformly samples the parameter space.
   };
}

#endif
