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<h2 title="Class VarOptItemsUnion" class="title">Class VarOptItemsUnion&lt;T&gt;</h2>
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<div class="block">Provides a unioning operation over varopt sketches. This union allows the sample size k to float,
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<td class="colFirst"><code><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#getResult--">getResult</a></span>()</code>
<div class="block">Gets the varopt sketch resulting from the union of any input sketches.</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static &lt;T&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsUnion</a>&lt;T&gt;</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#heapify-com.yahoo.memory.Memory-com.yahoo.sketches.ArrayOfItemsSerDe-">heapify</a></span>(com.yahoo.memory.Memory&nbsp;srcMem,
<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches">ArrayOfItemsSerDe</a>&lt;T&gt;&nbsp;serDe)</code>
<div class="block">Instantiates a Union from Memory</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>static &lt;T&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsUnion</a>&lt;T&gt;</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#newInstance-int-">newInstance</a></span>(int&nbsp;maxK)</code>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>void</code></td>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>byte[]</code></td>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>byte[]</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#toByteArray-com.yahoo.sketches.ArrayOfItemsSerDe-java.lang.Class-">toByteArray</a></span>(<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/ArrayOfItemsSerDe.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches">ArrayOfItemsSerDe</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;serDe,
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<td class="colFirst"><code>void</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#update-com.yahoo.memory.Memory-com.yahoo.sketches.ArrayOfItemsSerDe-">update</a></span>(com.yahoo.memory.Memory&nbsp;mem,
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<td class="colFirst"><code>void</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#update-com.yahoo.sketches.sampling.ReservoirItemsSketch-">update</a></span>(<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/ReservoirItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">ReservoirItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;reservoirIn)</code>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>void</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html#update-com.yahoo.sketches.sampling.VarOptItemsSketch-">update</a></span>(<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;sketchIn)</code>
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<div class="block">Creates an empty Union with a maximum capacity of size k.</div>
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<pre>public static&nbsp;&lt;T&gt;&nbsp;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsUnion</a>&lt;T&gt;&nbsp;heapify(com.yahoo.memory.Memory&nbsp;srcMem,
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<div class="block">Instantiates a Union from Memory</div>
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<dd><code>T</code> - The type of item this sketch contains</dd>
<dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
<dd><code>srcMem</code> - Memory object containing a serialized union</dd>
<dd><code>serDe</code> - An instance of ArrayOfItemsSerDe</dd>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
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<pre>public&nbsp;void&nbsp;update(<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;sketchIn)</pre>
<div class="block">Union the given sketch.
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<div class="block">Union the given Memory image of the sketch.
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<pre>public&nbsp;void&nbsp;update(<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/ReservoirItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">ReservoirItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;reservoirIn)</pre>
<div class="block">Union a reservoir sketch. The reservoir sample is treated as if all items were added with a
weight of 1.0.</div>
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<pre>public&nbsp;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsSketch.html" title="class in com.yahoo.sketches.sampling">VarOptItemsSketch</a>&lt;<a href="../../../../com/yahoo/sketches/sampling/VarOptItemsUnion.html" title="type parameter in VarOptItemsUnion">T</a>&gt;&nbsp;getResult()</pre>
<div class="block">Gets the varopt sketch resulting from the union of any input sketches.</div>
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<div class="block">Returns a human-readable summary of the sketch, without items.</div>
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<div class="block">Returns a byte array representation of this union</div>
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<div class="block">Returns a byte array representation of this union. This method should be used when the array
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