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package com.rapidminer.operator.similarity.attributebased;
/**
* This measure returns the maximal individual absolute distance of both examples in any component.
*
* @author Michael Wurst
* @version $Id: ChebychevNumericalDistance.java,v 1.5 2008/09/12 10:31:18 tobiasmalbrecht Exp $
*/
public class ChebychevNumericalDistance extends AbstractRealValueBasedSimilarity {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 8748750242681161409L;
@Override
public double similarity(double[] e1, double[] e2) {
double max = Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
for (int i = 0; i < e1.length; i++) {
double v1 = e1[i];
double v2 = e2[i];
if ((!Double.isNaN(v1)) && (!Double.isNaN(v2))) {
double d = Math.abs(v1 - v2);
if (d > max)
max = d;
}
}
if (max > Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY)
return max;
else
return Double.NaN;
}
public boolean isDistance() {
return true;
}
}