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docs: v.class.html fix typo, plus minor edit (OSGeo#4762)
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are those of the number of breaks asked for.
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<p>The <em>discont</em> algorithm systematically searches discontinuities
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in the slope of the cumulated frequencies curve, by approximating this
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in the slope of the cumulative frequencies curve, by approximating this
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curve through straight line segments whose vertices define the class
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breaks. The first approximation is a straight line which links the two
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end nodes of the curve. This line is then replaced by a two-segmented
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polyline whose central node is the point on the curve which is farthest
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from the preceding straight line. The point on the curve furthest from
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this new polyline is then chosen as a new node to create break up one of
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the two preceding segments, and so forth. The problem of the difference
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in terms of units between the two axes is solved by rescaling both
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amplitudes to an interval between 0 and 1. In the original algorithm,
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the process is stopped when the difference between the slopes of the two
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new segments is no longer significant (alpha = 0.05). As the slope is
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the ratio between the frequency and the amplitude of the corresponding
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the two preceding segments, and so forth.
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<p>The problem of the difference in terms of units between the two axes
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is solved by rescaling both amplitudes to an interval between 0 and 1.
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In the original algorithm, the process is stopped when the difference between
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the slopes of the two new segments is no longer significant (alpha = 0.05). As
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the slope is the ratio between the frequency and the amplitude of the corresponding
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interval, i.e. its density, this effectively tests whether the frequencies
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of the two newly proposed classes are different from those obtained by
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simply distributing the sum of their frequencies amongst them in proportion

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