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  1. Commons Math
  2. MATH-1279

Avoid unexpected errors in EmpiricalDistribution

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Trivial
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 3.5
    • 4.0, 3.6
    • None
    • None
    • Ubuntu 14.04

    Description

      Loading an empirical distributions results in an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when giving 0 as bin size, for example in:

      double values[] = new double[]

      { 1, 2 }

      ;
      EmpiricalDistribution distribution = new EmpiricalDistribution(0);
      distribution.load(values);

      To keep the error more understandable to the user, it would be nice if an RuntimeException or something like this would be thrown when initializing the EmpiricalDistribution with 0 bins. Especially when following the rule of thumb that there should be values size / 10 bins, it is hard to find out that the error is caused by a wrong bin size and not by some error in the load-call.

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            DaGeRe David Georg Reichelt
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