com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity
Class SimilarityMeasure

java.lang.Object
  com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.DistanceMeasure
      com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.SimilarityMeasure

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractNominalSimilarity, CorrelationSimilarity, CosineSimilarity, DiceNumericalSimilarity, InnerProductSimilarity, JaccardNumericalSimilarity, MaxProductSimilarity, OverlapNumericalSimilarity

public abstract class SimilarityMeasure
extends DistanceMeasure

This empty interface only indicates if a measure is more primary a similarity measure than a distance measure. Nevertheless both measure types have to implement both methods properly, so this interface is only for programmers orientation NOT for testing with instanceof!

Author:

Sebastian Land

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

SimilarityMeasure()

Method Summary

boolean

isDistance() This method returns a boolean wheter this measure is a distance measure

Methods inherited from class com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.DistanceMeasure

calculateDistance, calculateDistance, calculateDistance, calculateSimilarity, calculateSimilarity, calculateSimilarity, init, init, init, isSimilarity

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SimilarityMeasure

public SimilarityMeasure()

Method Detail

isDistance

public final boolean isDistance()

This method returns a boolean wheter this measure is a distance measure

Overrides:

isDistance in class DistanceMeasure

Returns:

true if is distance