/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Insight Segmentation & Registration Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: itkRandomVariateGeneratorBase.h,v $
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date: 2003/09/10 14:29:47 $
  Version:   $Revision: 1.2 $

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  See ITKCopyright.txt or http://www.itk.org/HTML/Copyright.htm for details.

     This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
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     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.

=========================================================================*/
#ifndef __itkRandomVariateGenerator_h
#define __itkRandomVariateGenerator_h

#include "itkObject.h"

namespace itk {
namespace Statistics {

/** \class RandomVariateGeneratorBase
 * \brief this class defines common interfaces for random variate generators
 *
 * \ingroup Statistics
 */
class ITK_EXPORT RandomVariateGeneratorBase : public Object
{
public:
  /** Standard class typedefs. */
  typedef RandomVariateGeneratorBase Self ;
  typedef Object Superclass;
  typedef SmartPointer<Self>   Pointer;
  typedef SmartPointer<const Self>  ConstPointer;

  /** Run-time type information (and related methods). */
  itkTypeMacro(RandomVariateGeneratorBase, Object );
 
  /** get a variate using FastNorm function */
  virtual double GetVariate() = 0 ;
    
protected:
  RandomVariateGeneratorBase() {} 
  virtual ~RandomVariateGeneratorBase() {}
    
private:
} ;  // end of class
  
} // end of namespace Statistics
} // end of namespace itk

#endif
