/* * RapidMiner * * Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Rapid-I and the contributors * * Complete list of developers available at our web site: * * http://rapid-i.com * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License * along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ package com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.numerical; import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet; import com.rapidminer.example.Tools; import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException; import com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.DistanceMeasure; /** * This measure returns the maximal individual absolute distance of both examples in any component. * * @author Sebastian Land, Michael Wurst * @version $Id: ChebychevNumericalDistance.java,v 1.1 2008/08/05 09:40:31 stiefelolm Exp $ */ public class ChebychevNumericalDistance extends DistanceMeasure { public double calculateDistance(double[] value1, double[] value2) { double max = Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY; for (int i = 0; i < value1.length; i++) { double v1 = value1[i]; double v2 = value2[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 double calculateSimilarity(double[] value1, double[] value2) { return -calculateDistance(value1, value2); } public void init(ExampleSet exampleSet) throws OperatorException { Tools.onlyNumericalAttributes(exampleSet, "value based similarities"); } }