/// <summary>
/// Creates a new HAC object that uses single-linkage as fusion function and the Jaccard index as distance metric
/// to cluster the specified elements.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="elements"></param>
public HacStart(Element[] elements)
{
setElements(elements);
this.fusion = new SingleLinkage();
this.metric = new JaccardDistance();
this.fusion.Metric = metric;
}
private void setElements(Element[] elements)
{
this.elements.AddRange(elements);
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a new HAC object to cluster the specified elements with the specified fusion and
/// metric function.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="elements"></param>
/// <param name="fusion"></param>
/// <param name="metric"></param>
public HacStart(Element[] elements, Fusion fusion, IDistanceMetric metric)
{
setElements(elements);
this.fusion = fusion;
this.fusion.Metric = metric;
}
internal void AddElements(Element[] elements)
{
foreach (Element e in elements)
this.elements.Add(e);
}
internal void AddElement(Element element)
{
this.elements.Add(element);
}