Function PGABinaryGeneDistance

Function Documentation

double PGABinaryGeneDistance(PGAContext *ctx, int p1, int pop1, int p2, int pop2)

Compute genetic difference of two strings.

Description

For binary genes this is the Hamming distance. It is used in the default setting of the PGA_USERFUNCTION_GEN_DISTANCE user function for the binary data type. Internal function. Use the gene distance user function PGAUserFunctionGeneDistance().

Parameters

  • ctx – context variable

  • p1 – first string index

  • pop1 – symbolic constant of the population the first string is in

  • p2 – second string index

  • pop2 – symbolic constant of the population the second string is in

Returns

genetic distance of the two strings