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package org.apache.commons.rng.sampling.distribution;

import org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider;

/**
 * Sampling from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution">Pareto distribution</a>.
 */
public class InverseTransformParetoSampler extends SamplerBase implements ContinuousSampler {
    /** Scale. */
    private final double scale;
    /** Shape. */
    private final double shape;

    /**
     * @param rng Generator of uniformly distributed random numbers.
     * @param scale Scale of the distribution.
     * @param shape Shape of the distribution.
     */
    public InverseTransformParetoSampler(UniformRandomProvider rng, double scale, double shape) {
        super(rng);
        this.scale = scale;
        this.shape = shape;
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public double sample() {
        return scale / Math.pow(nextDouble(), 1 / shape);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "[Inverse method for Pareto distribution " + super.toString() + "]";
    }
}