Class NearestNeighbour

JSAT/src/jsat/classifiers/knn/NearestNeighbour.java:27–334

An implementation of the Nearest Neighbor algorithm, but with a British spelling! How fancy. @author Edward Raff

 * @author Edward Raff
 */
public class NearestNeighbour implements  Classifier, Regressor, Parameterized
{

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4239569189624285932L;
    private int k;
    private boolean weighted;
    private DistanceMetric distanceMetric;
    private CategoricalData predicting;
    
    private VectorCollectionFactory<VecPaired<Vec, Double>> vcf;
    private VectorCollection<VecPaired<Vec, Double>> vecCollection;

    /**
     * Returns the number of neighbors currently consulted to make decisions
     * @return the number of neighbors
     */
    public int getNeighbors()
    {
        return k;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the number of neighbors to consult when making decisions
     * @param k the number of neighbors to use
     */
    public void setNeighbors(int k)
    {
        if(k < 1)
            throw new ArithmeticException("Must be a positive number of neighbors");
        this.k = k;
    }
    
    public int getNeighbors(int k)
    {
        return k;
    }

    public DistanceMetric getDistanceMetric()
    {
        return distanceMetric;
    }

    public void setDistanceMetric(DistanceMetric distanceMetric)
    {
        if(distanceMetric == null)
            throw new NullPointerException("given metric was null");
        this.distanceMetric = distanceMetric;
    }
    
    

    @Override
    public List<Parameter> getParameters()
    {
        return Parameter.getParamsFromMethods(this);
    }

    @Override