edu.ucla.sspace.clustering

Class Merge

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.clustering.Merge

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class Merge
extends Object
implements Serializable

A status object that represents the result of agglomeratively merging two clusters. This class provides the information on which clusters were merged, what the id of the remaining cluster is, and the similarity of the two clusters at the point at which they were merged.

See Also:

HierarchicalAgglomerativeClustering.buildDendogram(Matrix,edu.ucla.sspace.clustering.HierarchicalAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLinkage,edu.ucla.sspace.common.Similarity.SimType), Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Merge(int remainingCluster, int mergedCluster, double similarity)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(Object o)
int	hashCode()
int	mergedCluster() Returns the ID of the cluster that was merged into another cluster.
int	remainingCluster() Returns the ID of the clusters into which another cluster was merged, i.e.
double	similarity() Returns the similarity of the two clusters at the time of their merging.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Merge

public Merge(int remainingCluster,
     int mergedCluster,
     double similarity)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

mergedCluster

public int mergedCluster()

Returns the ID of the cluster that was merged into another cluster.

remainingCluster

public int remainingCluster()

Returns the ID of the clusters into which another cluster was merged, i.e. all the data points in the merged cluster would now have this ID.

similarity

public double similarity()

Returns the similarity of the two clusters at the time of their merging.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object