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 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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package org.apache.commons.math.stat.mining;

/**
 * Designed to allow implementation of Ranking Algorithms, who are responsible to only calculate the rank of a given array
 */
public interface RankingAlgorithm {
    /**
     * Calculates the rank of a each element of an array of data
     * 
     * @param data1 Array of data to be ranked
     */
    double [] rank (double [] data1);
}