[jira] Updated: (MATH-546) Truncation issue in KMeansPlusPlusClusterer

["Nate Paymer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Nate Paymer updated MATH-546:
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    Attachment: MATH-546.txt

I've a patch to fix this bug.

This is my first contribution to this project, so apologies if I've screwed something up :)

> Truncation issue in KMeansPlusPlusClusterer
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-546
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-546
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>            Reporter: Nate Paymer
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: cluster
>         Attachments: MATH-546.txt
>
>
> The for loop inside KMeansPlusPlusClusterer.chooseInitialClusters defines a variable
>   int sum = 0;
> This variable should have type double, rather than int.  Using an int causes the method to truncate the distances between points to (square roots of) integers.  It's especially bad when the distances between points are typically less than 1.
> As an aside, in version 2.2, this bug manifested itself by making the clusterer return empty clusters.  I wonder if the EmptyClusterStrategy would still be necessary if this bug were fixed.

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