edu.umass.cs.mallet.base.types

Class Minkowski

java.lang.Object

edu.umass.cs.mallet.base.types.Minkowski

All Implemented Interfaces:

Metric

public class Minkowski
extends Object
implements Metric

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Minkowski(double q) Constructor for Minkowski metric.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	distance(SparseVector a, SparseVector b)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Minkowski

public Minkowski(double q)

Constructor for Minkowski metric.

Parameters:

q - Power of component wise absolute difference; must be at least 1

Method Detail

distance

public double distance(SparseVector a,
                       SparseVector b)

Specified by:

distance in interface Metric