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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: vtkPDescriptiveStatistics.h,v $

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
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// .NAME vtkPDescriptiveStatistics - A class for parallel univariate descriptive statistics
// .SECTION Description
// vtkPDescriptiveStatistics is vtkDescriptiveStatistics subclass for parallel datasets.
// It learns and derives the global statistical model on each node, but assesses each 
// individual data points on the node that owns it.

// .SECTION Thanks
// Thanks to Philippe Pebay from Sandia National Laboratories for implementing this class.

#ifndef __vtkPDescriptiveStatistics_h
#define __vtkPDescriptiveStatistics_h

#include "vtkDescriptiveStatistics.h"

class vtkMultiProcessController;

class VTK_INFOVIS_EXPORT vtkPDescriptiveStatistics : public vtkDescriptiveStatistics
{
public:
  static vtkPDescriptiveStatistics* New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkPDescriptiveStatistics, vtkDescriptiveStatistics);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Get/Set the multiprocess controller. If no controller is set,
  // single process is assumed.
  virtual void SetController(vtkMultiProcessController*);
  vtkGetObjectMacro(Controller, vtkMultiProcessController);

  // Description:
  // Execute the parallel calculations required by the Learn option.
  virtual void Learn( vtkTable* inData,
                             vtkTable* inParameters,
                             vtkDataObject* outMeta );

protected:
  vtkPDescriptiveStatistics();
  ~vtkPDescriptiveStatistics();

  vtkMultiProcessController* Controller;
private:
  vtkPDescriptiveStatistics(const vtkPDescriptiveStatistics&); // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkPDescriptiveStatistics&); // Not implemented.
};

#endif

