weka.core

Class ChebyshevDistance

java.lang.Object

weka.core.NormalizableDistance

weka.core.ChebyshevDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, DistanceFunction, OptionHandler, RevisionHandler, TechnicalInformationHandler

public class ChebyshevDistance
extends NormalizableDistance
implements TechnicalInformationHandler

Implements the Chebyshev distance. The distance between two vectors is the greatest of their differences along any coordinate dimension.

For more information, see:

Wikipedia. Chebyshev distance. URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_distance.

BibTeX:

 @misc{missing_id,
    author = {Wikipedia},
    title = {Chebyshev distance},
    URL = {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_distance}
 }
 

Valid options are:

 -D
  Turns off the normalization of attribute 
  values in distance calculation.

 -R <col1,col2-col4,...>
  Specifies list of columns to used in the calculation of the 
  distance. 'first' and 'last' are valid indices.
  (default: first-last)

 -V
  Invert matching sense of column indices.

Version:

$Revision: 8034 $

Author:

Fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class weka.core.NormalizableDistance

R_MAX, R_MIN, R_WIDTH

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ChebyshevDistance() Constructs an Chebyshev Distance object, Instances must be still set.
ChebyshevDistance(Instances data) Constructs an Chebyshev Distance object and automatically initializes the ranges.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getRevision() Returns the revision string.
TechnicalInformation	getTechnicalInformation() Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.
String	globalInfo() Returns a string describing this object.

Methods inherited from class weka.core.NormalizableDistance

attributeIndicesTipText, distance, distance, distance, distance, dontNormalizeTipText, getAttributeIndices, getDontNormalize, getInstances, getInvertSelection, getOptions, getRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRanges, initializeRangesEmpty, inRanges, invertSelectionTipText, listOptions, postProcessDistances, rangesSet, setAttributeIndices, setDontNormalize, setInstances, setInvertSelection, setOptions, toString, update, updateRanges, updateRanges, updateRanges, updateRangesFirst

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ChebyshevDistance

public ChebyshevDistance()

Constructs an Chebyshev Distance object, Instances must be still set.

ChebyshevDistance

public ChebyshevDistance(Instances data)

Constructs an Chebyshev Distance object and automatically initializes the ranges.

Parameters:

data - the instances the distance function should work on

Method Detail

globalInfo

public String globalInfo()

Returns a string describing this object.

Specified by:

globalInfo in class NormalizableDistance

Returns:

a description of the evaluator suitable for displaying in the explorer/experimenter gui

getTechnicalInformation

public TechnicalInformation getTechnicalInformation()

Returns an instance of a TechnicalInformation object, containing detailed information about the technical background of this class, e.g., paper reference or book this class is based on.

Specified by:

getTechnicalInformation in interface TechnicalInformationHandler

Returns:

the technical information about this class

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Returns:

the revision