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

java.lang.Object
  extended byedu.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