package de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.scaling.outlier;

/*
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 Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures

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 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
 Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme
 ELKI Development Team

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import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.result.outlier.OutlierResult;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.datastructures.arraylike.NumberArrayAdapter;
import de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.utilities.scaling.ScalingFunction;

/**
 * Interface for scaling functions used by Outlier evaluation such as Histograms
 * and visualization. Make sure to invoke {@link #prepare} prior to applying the
 * scaling function.
 * 
 * @author Erich Schubert
 */
public interface OutlierScalingFunction extends ScalingFunction {
  /**
   * Prepare is called once for each data set, before getScaled() will be
   * called. This function can be used to extract global parameters such as
   * means, minimums or maximums from the outlier scores.
   * 
   * @param or Outlier result to use
   */
  public void prepare(OutlierResult or);

  /**
   * Prepare is called once for each data set, before getScaled() will be
   * called. This function can be used to extract global parameters such as
   * means, minimums or maximums from the score array.
   * 
   * The method using a full {@link OutlierResult} is preferred, as it will
   * allow access to the metadata.
   * 
   * @param array Data to process
   * @param adapter Array adapter 
   */
  public <A> void prepare(A array, NumberArrayAdapter<?, A> adapter);
}