broadwick.abc

Class AbcAbsDistance

java.lang.Object

broadwick.abc.AbcAbsDistance

All Implemented Interfaces:

AbcDistance

class AbcAbsDistance
extends Object
implements AbcDistance

Create a default controller that run 1000 samples from the prior.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbcAbsDistance()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	calculate(AbcNamedQuantity generated, AbcNamedQuantity observed) Calculated the distance between the observed data and the generated data.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AbcAbsDistance

AbcAbsDistance()

Method Detail

calculate

public final double calculate(AbcNamedQuantity generated,
                              AbcNamedQuantity observed)

Description copied from interface: AbcDistance

Calculated the distance between the observed data and the generated data. Depending on the project, the implementing class can create summary statistics from the data.

Specified by:

calculate in interface AbcDistance

Parameters:

generated - the data generated from the mdoel.

observed - the observed data.

Returns:

a measure of the calculated distance between the observed and generated data, for example, if we have a simple case where the data is single value the distance returned may be the absolute value of the difference in data.