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- Each kind of distribution in this library is a class type - an object.
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- <a class="link" href="../../../policy.html" title="Chapter 19. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policies</a> provide fine-grained control of
- the behaviour of these classes, allowing the user to customise behaviour
- such as how errors are handled, or how the quantiles of discrete distribtions
- behave.
+ Each kind of distribution in this library is a class type - an object,
+ with member functions.
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+ <a class="link" href="../../../policy.html" title="Chapter 20. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policies</a> provide optional fine-grained control
+ of the behaviour of these classes, allowing the user to customise behaviour
+ such as how errors are handled, or how the quantiles of discrete distributions
+ behave.
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Making distributions class types does two things:
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