mobios.dist
Interface Metric
- All Superinterfaces:
- Serializable
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- CountedMetric, ImageMetric, LMetric, MSMetric, MSMSMetric, SequenceFragmentMetric, WHDGlobalSequenceFragmentMetric
public interface Metric
- extends Serializable
Metric
is a distance oracle. It specifies a binary function to compute distance
between two data points in metric space. The distance function should capture the metric
properties, i.e. non-negativity, symmetry and the triangle inequality.
- Version:
- 2005.10.31
- Author:
- Jack, Rui Mao, Willard
getDistance
double getDistance(IndexObject one,
IndexObject two)
- Computes the distance between two objects.
- Parameters:
one
- the first IndexObject
to compute distance ontwo
- the second IndexObject
to compute distance on
- Returns:
- the distance between the two objects
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