Catalano.Math.Distances

Class HammingDistance

java.lang.Object

Catalano.Math.Distances.HammingDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

IDistance<java.lang.String>, IDivergence<java.lang.String>, java.io.Serializable

public class HammingDistance
extends java.lang.Object
implements IDistance<java.lang.String>

Hamming distance. In information theory, the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HammingDistance() Initializes a new instance of the HammingDistance class.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	Compute(java.lang.String u, java.lang.String v) Compute the distance between the vectors.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HammingDistance

public HammingDistance()

Initializes a new instance of the HammingDistance class.

Method Detail

Compute

public double Compute(java.lang.String u,
                      java.lang.String v)

Description copied from interface: IDivergence

Compute the distance between the vectors.

Specified by:

Compute in interface IDistance<java.lang.String>

Specified by:

Compute in interface IDivergence<java.lang.String>

Parameters:

u - Vector.

v - Vector.

Returns:

Distance.