nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.algorithm.reusablecores.distance
Class ManhattanDistance

java.lang.Object
  extended by nz.ac.waikato.mcennis.rat.graph.algorithm.reusablecores.distance.ManhattanDistance
All Implemented Interfaces:
DistanceFunction

public class ManhattanDistance
extends java.lang.Object
implements DistanceFunction

Manhattan Distance measure as defined in Wikipedia


Constructor Summary
ManhattanDistance()
           
 
Method Summary
 double distance(DataVector inst1, DataVector inst2)
          Return the distance between the two given vectors as a double.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

ManhattanDistance

public ManhattanDistance()
Method Detail

distance

public double distance(DataVector inst1,
                       DataVector inst2)
Description copied from interface: DistanceFunction
Return the distance between the two given vectors as a double.

Specified by:
distance in interface DistanceFunction
Parameters:
inst1 - left data vector
inst2 - right data vector
Returns:
distance by a given metric