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 java.lang.Object

implements Metric

Constructor Summary

Minkowski(double q)
Constructor for Minkowski metric.

Method Summary

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