/** * Copyright (C) 2001-2017 by RapidMiner and the contributors * * Complete list of developers available at our web site: * * http://rapidminer.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.mixed; import com.rapidminer.example.Attribute; import com.rapidminer.example.Attributes; import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet; import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException; import com.rapidminer.tools.math.similarity.DistanceMeasure; /** * Euclidean distance for numerical and nominal values. For nomimal values, a distance of one is * accounted if both values are not the same. Note: In most cases, you must normalize the numerical * values, to obtain sound results. * * @author Sebastian Land, Michael Wurst */ public class MixedEuclideanDistance extends DistanceMeasure { private static final long serialVersionUID = 536655587492508882L; private boolean[] isNominal; @Override public double calculateDistance(double[] value1, double[] value2) { double sum = 0.0; int counter = 0; for (int i = 0; i < value1.length; i++) { if ((!Double.isNaN(value1[i])) && (!Double.isNaN(value2[i]))) { if (isNominal[i]) { if (value1[i] != value2[i]) { sum = sum + 1.0; } } else { double diff = value1[i] - value2[i]; sum += diff * diff; } counter++; } } if (counter > 0) { return Math.sqrt(sum); } else { return Double.NaN; } } @Override public double calculateSimilarity(double[] value1, double[] value2) { return -calculateDistance(value1, value2); } @Override public void init(ExampleSet exampleSet) throws OperatorException { super.init(exampleSet); Attributes attributes = exampleSet.getAttributes(); init(attributes); } private void init(Attributes attributes) { isNominal = new boolean[attributes.size()]; int index = 0; for (Attribute attribute : attributes) { isNominal[index++] = attribute.isNominal(); } } @Override public DistanceMeasureConfig init(Attributes firstSetAttributes, Attributes secondSetAttributes) { DistanceMeasureConfig config = super.init(firstSetAttributes, secondSetAttributes); init(firstSetAttributes); return config; } @Override public String toString() { return "Mixed euclidean distance"; } }