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Chapter 6 Week 7

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6.2. Sorting: Quadratic Sorts

6.2.1. Quadratic Sorts

6.2.1.1. Sorting

  • Each record contains a field called the key.
    • Linear order: comparison.

  • Measures of cost:
    • Comparisons

    • Swaps

6.2.1.2. Insertion Sort

What would you do if you have a stack of phone bills from the past two years and you want to order by date? A fairly natural way to handle this is to look at the first two bills and put them in order. Then take the third bill and put it into the right position with respect to the first two, and so on.

6.2.1.3. Initial Step

Consider this start to the process.

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6.2.1.4. Analysis: Worst Case

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6.2.1.5. Analysis: Best Case

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6.2.1.6. Analysis: Average Case

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6.2.1.7. Bubble Sort

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6.2.1.8. Analysis

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6.2.1.9. Selection Sort

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6.2.1.10. Analysis

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6.2.1.11. Summary

\[\begin{split}\begin{array}{rccc} &\textbf{Insertion}&\textbf{Bubble}&\textbf{Selection}\\ \textbf{Comparisons:}\\ \textrm{Best Case}&\Theta(n)&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)\\ \textrm{Average Case}&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)\\ \textrm{Worst Case}&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)\\ \\ \textbf{Swaps:}\\ \textrm{Best Case}&0&0&\Theta(n)\\ \textrm{Average Case}&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n)\\ \textrm{Worst Case}&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n^2)&\Theta(n)\\ \end{array}\end{split}\]

6.2.1.12. Code Tuning (1)

General strategy: Test to avoid work
Balance test cost, success probability, work saved
“Optimizations” for quadratic sorts:
Insertion Sort shift vs swaps: Works
Selection Sort viewed as an optimization of Bubble Sort: Works
Selection Sort avoid self-swaps: Does not work
Bubble Sort “i” vs “1”: Works
Bubble Sort count comparisons/avoid unnecessary iterations: Does not work
Bubble Sort O(n) best case claim: Bogus

6.2.1.13. Exchange Sorting

  • All of the sorts so far rely on exchanges of adjacent records: Inversions

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