baseCode.algorithm.learning.unsupervised.cluster
Class Cluster

java.lang.Object
  baseCode.common.Visitable
      baseCode.common.Distanceable
          baseCode.algorithm.learning.unsupervised.cluster.Cluster

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable

public class Cluster

extends Distanceable

Copyright (c) 2004 Columbia University

Version:

$Id: Cluster.java,v 1.3 2004/08/11 22:53:43 pavlidis Exp $

Author:

pavlidis

Field Summary

protected Distancer	distAlg
protected java.util.Collection	items

Constructor Summary

Cluster()

Cluster(java.util.Collection items, Distancer distAlg)

Cluster(java.lang.Object item, Distancer distAlg)

Method Summary

void	addItem(Cluster item)
int	compareTo(java.lang.Object o)
double	distanceTo(Distanceable a)
boolean	isCompound()
java.util.Collection	toCollection() Return a collections view of the object.

Methods inherited from class baseCode.common.Visitable

isVisited, mark, unMark

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

distAlg

protected Distancer distAlg

items

protected java.util.Collection items

Constructor Detail

Cluster

public Cluster()

Cluster

public Cluster(java.lang.Object item,
               Distancer distAlg)

Cluster

public Cluster(java.util.Collection items,
               Distancer distAlg)

Method Detail

addItem

public void addItem(Cluster item)

isCompound

public boolean isCompound()

Returns:

true if this cluster is made up of multiple distanceables, or multiple ones.

distanceTo

public double distanceTo(Distanceable a)

Specified by:

distanceTo in class Distanceable

Parameters:

a -

Returns:

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object o)

toCollection

public java.util.Collection toCollection()

Description copied from class: Distanceable

Return a collections view of the object. The implementer has to make sure the Collection is of Distanceables.

Specified by:

toCollection in class Distanceable

Returns:

@todo not very elegant...