Package ffx.numerics.clustering

Class CompleteLinkageStrategy

java.lang.Object

ffx.numerics.clustering.CompleteLinkageStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

LinkageStrategy

public class CompleteLinkageStrategy
extends Object
implements LinkageStrategy

Linkage strategy that uses the maximum of pairwise distances between cluster members (complete-linkage / farthest-neighbor).

Since:

1.0

Author:

Lars Behnke, 2013, Michael J. Schnieders

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CompleteLinkageStrategy()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Distance	calculateDistance(Collection<Distance> distances)	Computes the complete-linkage distance, i.e., the maximum of provided distances.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

CompleteLinkageStrategy

public CompleteLinkageStrategy()

Method Details

calculateDistance

public Distance calculateDistance(Collection<Distance> distances)

Computes the complete-linkage distance, i.e., the maximum of provided distances.

Specified by:

calculateDistance in interface LinkageStrategy

Parameters:

distances - collection of pairwise distances between cluster members

Returns:

a Distance whose value is the maximum of the inputs