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The Apache Commons Math project is a library of lightweight, self-contained mathematics and statistics components addressing the most common practical problems not immediately available in the Java programming language or commons-lang.

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package org.apache.commons.math3.stat.clustering;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Interface for points that can be clustered together.
 * @param  the type of point that can be clustered
 * @since 2.0
 * @deprecated As of 3.2 (to be removed in 4.0),
 * use {@link org.apache.commons.math3.ml.clustering.Clusterable} instead
 */
@Deprecated
public interface Clusterable {

    /**
     * Returns the distance from the given point.
     *
     * @param p the point to compute the distance from
     * @return the distance from the given point
     */
    double distanceFrom(T p);

    /**
     * Returns the centroid of the given Collection of points.
     *
     * @param p the Collection of points to compute the centroid of
     * @return the centroid of the given Collection of Points
     */
    T centroidOf(Collection p);

}