AgreementMeasure.java

/*
	Copyright (c) 2009-2011
		Speech Group at Informatik 5, Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, GERMANY
		Korbinian Riedhammer
		Tobias Bocklet

	This file is part of the Java Speech Toolkit (JSTK).

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package de.fau.cs.jstk.agmt;

/**
 * An AgreementMeasure computes a measure of agreement between raters and their
 * ratings. The data needs to be organized by raters and ratings.
 * @author sikoried
 *
 */
public interface AgreementMeasure {
	/**
	 * Compute the agreement with respect to the data.
	 * @param data [rater][subject] = rating
	 * @return
	 */
	public double agreement(double [][] data);
	
	/**
	 * Return the metric used to compute the agreement.
	 * @return
	 */
	public Metric getMetric();
}