edu.ucla.sspace.clustering

Enum NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Enum<NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink>

edu.ucla.sspace.clustering.NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink>

Enclosing class:

NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering

public static enum NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink
extends Enum<NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink>

The similarity method used when comparing and merging compelte clusters. See this guide for examples of how each link method operates.

Enum Constant Summary

Enum Constants

Enum Constant and Description
COMPLETE_LINK Similarity will be based on most dissimilar item pair connecting two clusters.
MCQUITTY_LINK Similarity will be the unweighted average similarity of all item pairs connecting two clusters.
MEAN_LINK Similarity will be the average similarity of all item pairs connecting two clusters.
MEDIAN_LINK Similarity will be based on median points for each cluster.
SINGLE_LINK Similarity will be based on the most similar item pair connecting two clusters.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink	valueOf(String name) Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
static NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink[]	values() Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Enum Constant Detail

SINGLE_LINK

public static final NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink SINGLE_LINK

Similarity will be based on the most similar item pair connecting two clusters.

COMPLETE_LINK

public static final NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink COMPLETE_LINK

Similarity will be based on most dissimilar item pair connecting two clusters.

MEAN_LINK

public static final NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink MEAN_LINK

Similarity will be the average similarity of all item pairs connecting two clusters.

MEDIAN_LINK

public static final NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink MEDIAN_LINK

Similarity will be based on median points for each cluster.

MCQUITTY_LINK

public static final NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink MCQUITTY_LINK

Similarity will be the unweighted average similarity of all item pairs connecting two clusters.

Method Detail

values

public static NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

for (NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink c : NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:

an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static NeighborChainAgglomerativeClustering.ClusterLink valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:

name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

Returns:

the enum constant with the specified name

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

NullPointerException - if the argument is null