//
// File: HmmTransitionMatrix.h
// Created by: Julien Dutheil
// Created on: Sat Oct 27 10:24 2007
//

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#ifndef _HMMTRANSITIONMATRIX_H_
#define _HMMTRANSITIONMATRIX_H_

#include "HmmStateAlphabet.h"
#include "HmmExceptions.h"
#include "../Matrix/Matrix.h"
#include "../Parametrizable.h"

//Fron the STL:
#include <vector>

namespace bpp
{

/**
 * @brief Describe the transition probabilities between hidden states of a Hidden Markov Model.
 *
 * This class is part of the HMM framework.
 */
  class HmmTransitionMatrix:
    public virtual Parametrizable
  {
  public:

    /**
     * @return The hidden alphabet associated to this model.
     */

    virtual const HmmStateAlphabet* getHmmStateAlphabet() const = 0;

    /**
     * @brief Set the new hidden state alphabet.
     * @param stateAlphabet The new state alphabet.
     * @throw UnvalidStateAlphabetException if the new alphabet is uncorrect (for instance is NULL pointer).
     */
    virtual void setHmmStateAlphabet(const HmmStateAlphabet* stateAlphabet) = 0;
   
    /**
     * @return The number of states in the model.
     */
    virtual size_t getNumberOfStates() const = 0;

    /**
     * @brief Get the transition probability between two states.
     *
     * @param i initial state.
     * @param j final state.
     * @return the transition probability between the two states.
     */
    virtual double Pij(size_t i, size_t j) const = 0;

    /**
     * @brief Get all transition probabilities as a matrix.
     *
     * @return A n*n matrix will all transition probabilities (n being the number of hidden states).
     */
    virtual const Matrix<double>& getPij() const = 0;

    /**
     * @return The vector of equilibrium frequencies of the Markov chain described by the matrix.
     */
    virtual const std::vector<double>& getEquilibriumFrequencies() const = 0;

  };

} //end of namespace bpp

#endif //_HMMTRANSITIONMATRIX_H_

