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package org.apache.commons.math3.ml.clustering.evaluation;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.math3.ml.clustering.Cluster;
import org.apache.commons.math3.ml.clustering.Clusterable;
import org.apache.commons.math3.ml.distance.DistanceMeasure;
import org.apache.commons.math3.stat.descriptive.moment.Variance;

/**
 * Computes the sum of intra-cluster distance variances according to the formula:
 *  * \( score = \sum\limits_{i=1}^n \sigma_i^2 \)
 * 
 * where n is the number of clusters and \( \sigma_i^2 \) is the variance of
 * intra-cluster distances of cluster \( c_i \).
 *
 * @param  the type of the clustered points
 * @since 3.3
 */
public class SumOfClusterVariances extends ClusterEvaluator {

    /**
     *
     * @param measure the distance measure to use
     */
    public SumOfClusterVariances(final DistanceMeasure measure) {
        super(measure);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override
    public double score(final List> clusters) {
        double varianceSum = 0.0;
        for (final Cluster cluster : clusters) {
            if (!cluster.getPoints().isEmpty()) {

                final Clusterable center = centroidOf(cluster);

                // compute the distance variance of the current cluster
                final Variance stat = new Variance();
                for (final T point : cluster.getPoints()) {
                    stat.increment(distance(point, center));
                }
                varianceSum += stat.getResult();

            }
        }
        return varianceSum;
    }

}