Package ffx.numerics.clustering

Class SingleLinkageStrategy

java.lang.Object

ffx.numerics.clustering.SingleLinkageStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

LinkageStrategy

public class SingleLinkageStrategy
extends Object
implements LinkageStrategy

Linkage strategy that uses the minimum of pairwise distances between cluster members (single-linkage / nearest-neighbor).

Since:

1.0

Author:

Lars Behnke, 2013, Michael J. Schnieders

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
SingleLinkageStrategy()

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

SingleLinkageStrategy

public SingleLinkageStrategy()

Method Details

calculateDistance

public Distance calculateDistance(Collection<Distance> distances)

Computes the single-linkage distance, i.e., the minimum 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 minimum of the inputs