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017package org.apache.commons.math4.legacy.ml.distance;
018
019import org.apache.commons.math4.core.jdkmath.JdkMath;
020import org.apache.commons.math4.legacy.core.MathArrays;
021
022/**
023 * Calculates the Earh Mover's distance (also known as Wasserstein metric) between two distributions.
024 *
025 * @see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mover's_distance">Earth Mover's distance (Wikipedia)</a>
026 *
027 * @since 3.3
028 */
029public class EarthMoversDistance implements DistanceMeasure {
030    /** {@inheritDoc} */
031    @Override
032    public double compute(double[] a, double[] b) {
033        MathArrays.checkEqualLength(a, b);
034        double lastDistance = 0;
035        double totalDistance = 0;
036        for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
037            final double currentDistance = (a[i] + lastDistance) - b[i];
038            totalDistance += JdkMath.abs(currentDistance);
039            lastDistance = currentDistance;
040        }
041        return totalDistance;
042    }
043}