PlottingPositionGenerator.java

package org.drip.validation.quantile;

/*
 * -*- mode: java; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
 */

/*!
 * Copyright (C) 2020 Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 * Copyright (C) 2019 Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 * 
 *  This file is part of DROP, an open-source library targeting analytics/risk, transaction cost analytics,
 *      asset liability management analytics, capital, exposure, and margin analytics, valuation adjustment
 *      analytics, and portfolio construction analytics within and across fixed income, credit, commodity,
 *      equity, FX, and structured products. It also includes auxiliary libraries for algorithm support,
 *      numerical analysis, numerical optimization, spline builder, model validation, statistical learning,
 *      and computational support.
 *  
 *      https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP/
 *  
 *  DROP is composed of three modules:
 *  
 *  - DROP Product Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Product-Core/
 *  - DROP Portfolio Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Portfolio-Core/
 *  - DROP Computational Core - https://lakshmidrip.github.io/DROP-Computational-Core/
 * 
 *  DROP Product Core implements libraries for the following:
 *  - Fixed Income Analytics
 *  - Loan Analytics
 *  - Transaction Cost Analytics
 * 
 *  DROP Portfolio Core implements libraries for the following:
 *  - Asset Allocation Analytics
 *  - Asset Liability Management Analytics
 *  - Capital Estimation Analytics
 *  - Exposure Analytics
 *  - Margin Analytics
 *  - XVA Analytics
 * 
 *  DROP Computational Core implements libraries for the following:
 *  - Algorithm Support
 *  - Computation Support
 *  - Function Analysis
 *  - Model Validation
 *  - Numerical Analysis
 *  - Numerical Optimizer
 *  - Spline Builder
 *  - Statistical Learning
 * 
 *  Documentation for DROP is Spread Over:
 * 
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/**
 * <i>PlottingPositionGenerator</i> exposes all Plotting Position Generation Schemes - both Expectation Based
 * and Median Based.
 *
 *  <br><br>
 *  <ul>
 *      <li>
 *          Filliben, J. J. (1975): The Probability Plot Correlation Coefficient Test for Normality
 *              <i>Technometrics, American Society for Quality</i> <b>17 (1)</b> 111-117
 *      </li>
 *      <li>
 *          Gibbons, J. D., and S. Chakraborti (2003): <i>Non-parametric Statistical Inference 4th
 *              Edition</i> <b>CRC Press</b>
 *      </li>
 *      <li>
 *          Gnanadesikan, R. (1977): <i>Methods for Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Observations</i>
 *              <b>Wiley</b>
 *      </li>
 *      <li>
 *          Thode, H. C. (2002): <i>Testing for Normality</i> <b>Marcel Dekker</b> New York
 *      </li>
 *      <li>
 *          Wikipedia (2018): Q-Q Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%E2%80%93Q_plot
 *      </li>
 *  </ul>
 *
 *  <br><br>
 *  <ul>
 *      <li><b>Module </b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/ComputationalCore.md">Computational Core Module</a></li>
 *      <li><b>Library</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/ModelValidationAnalyticsLibrary.md">Model Validation Analytics Library</a></li>
 *      <li><b>Project</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/src/main/java/org/drip/validation/README.md">Risk Factor and Hypothesis Validation, Evidence Processing, and Model Testing</a></li>
 *      <li><b>Package</b> = <a href = "https://github.com/lakshmiDRIP/DROP/tree/master/src/main/java/org/drip/validation/quantile/README.md">Quantile Based Graphical Numerical Validators</a></li>
 *  </ul>
 * <br><br>
 *
 * @author Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
 */

public abstract class PlottingPositionGenerator
{
    private int _orderStatisticCount = -1;

    protected PlottingPositionGenerator (
        final int orderStatisticCount)
        throws java.lang.Exception
    {
        if (1 >= (_orderStatisticCount = orderStatisticCount))
        {
            throw new java.lang.Exception ("PlottingPositionGenerator Constructor => Invalid Inputs");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the Count of Order Statistics
     * 
     * @return The Count of Order Statistics
     */

    public int orderStatisticCount()
    {
        return _orderStatisticCount;
    }

    /**
     * Generate the Plotting Position Array
     * 
     * @return The Plotting Position Array
     */

    abstract public org.drip.validation.quantile.PlottingPosition[] generate();
}