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Interface Positionable

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Positionable>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Category

public interface Positionable
extends Comparable<Positionable>

The idea of being positionable is to place a point somewhere along a one-dimensional axis This is very natural for numerical data, but can be applied to categorical data too.

Author:

Simon White (swhite@catalysoft.com)

Method Summary

double

position() Map the Positionable object to a numeric value (a double) so that it can be positioned on an axis.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

position

double position()

Map the Positionable object to a numeric value (a double) so that it can be positioned on an axis.

Returns:

the position of the object