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[Positioner] Fix PosUtil::ss_square_distance() 

The returned distance is now "averaged" to take into account the number
of measurements in the lists. The former behaviour would lead two
couples of measurement lists with a different number of measurement to
have non-comparable distances.
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Matteo Cypriani 2012-02-08 17:57:00 +01:00
parent dc0e56c0ec
commit e687aac741
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@ -73,11 +73,19 @@ void PosUtil::complete_with_dummy_measurements(
* Both lists must have the same size and contain the same keys:
* you should call complete_with_dummy_measurements() before
* compute_ss_square_distance().
*
* The distance between the two lists is computed by averaging the
* square distances between the elements of both lists, two by two.
* Therefore, it is not really an averaged square distance; you cannot
* divide it to obtain an euclidean distance. To do that, one would
* have to create a ss_distance() function that average the distances
* between the elements of the lists instead of the square distance.
*/
float PosUtil::ss_square_distance(
unordered_map<string, Measurement> &measurements1,
unordered_map<string, Measurement> &measurements2)
{
assert(! measurements1.empty()) ;
assert(measurements1.size() == measurements2.size()) ;
float distance = 0 ;
@ -88,11 +96,10 @@ float PosUtil::ss_square_distance(
unordered_map<string, Measurement>::const_iterator i2 =
measurements2.find(i1->first) ;
assert(i2 != measurements2.end()) ;
distance += i1->second.ss_square_distance(
i2->second) ;
distance += i1->second.ss_square_distance(i2->second) ;
}
return distance ;
return distance / measurements1.size() ;
}