edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.validation
Class CFSFeatureSetEvaluator

java.lang.Object
  edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.Operator
      edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.validation.CFSFeatureSetEvaluator

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurationListener

public class CFSFeatureSetEvaluator
extends Operator

CFS attribute subset evaluator. For more information see:
Hall, M. A. (1998). Correlation-based Feature Subset Selection for Machine Learning. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato.

This operator creates a filter based performance measure for a feature subset. It evaluates the worth of a subset of attributes by considering the individual predictive ability of each feature along with the degree of redundancy between them. Subsets of features that are highly correlated with the class while having low intercorrelation are preferred.

This operator can be applied on both numerical and nominal data sets.

Version:

$Id: CFSFeatureSetEvaluator.java,v 1.4 2006/04/05 09:42:02 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Ingo Mierswa

Constructor Summary

CFSFeatureSetEvaluator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Summary

IOObject[]	apply() Implement this method in subclasses.
java.lang.Class[]	getInputClasses() Returns the classes that are needed as input.
InputDescription	getInputDescription(java.lang.Class cls) Shows a parameter keep_example_set with default value "false&quot.
java.lang.Class[]	getOutputClasses() Returns the classes that are guaranteed to be returned by apply() as additional output.

Methods inherited from class edu.udo.cs.yale.operator.Operator

addError, addValue, addWarning, apply, checkDeprecations, checkIO, checkProperties, clearErrorList, cloneOperator, createExperimentTree, createExperimentTree, createFromXML, createMarkedExperimentTree, delete, experimentFinished, experimentStarts, getAddOnlyAdditionalOutput, getApplyCount, getDeliveredOutputClasses, getDeprecationInfo, getDesiredInputClasses, getErrorList, getExperiment, getInnerOperatorsXML, getInput, getInput, getInput, getIOContainerForInApplyLoopBreakpoint, getName, getNumberOfSteps, getOperatorClassName, getOperatorDescription, getParameter, getParameterAsBoolean, getParameterAsColor, getParameterAsDouble, getParameterAsFile, getParameterAsInt, getParameterAsString, getParameterList, getParameters, getParameterType, getParameterTypes, getParent, getStartTime, getStatus, getUserDescription, getValue, getValues, getXML, hasBreakpoint, hasBreakpoint, hasInput, inApplyLoop, isEnabled, isParameterSet, logMessage, performAdditionalChecks, register, remove, rename, resume, setBreakpoint, setEnabled, setExperiment, setInput, setListParameter, setOperatorParameters, setParameter, setParameters, setParent, setUserDescription, toString, writeXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CFSFeatureSetEvaluator

public CFSFeatureSetEvaluator(OperatorDescription description)

Method Detail

getInputDescription

public InputDescription getInputDescription(java.lang.Class cls)

Shows a parameter keep_example_set with default value "false&quot.

Overrides:

getInputDescription in class Operator

apply

public IOObject[] apply()
                 throws OperatorException

Description copied from class: Operator

Implement this method in subclasses.

Specified by:

apply in class Operator

Throws:

OperatorException

getInputClasses

public java.lang.Class[] getInputClasses()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns the classes that are needed as input. May be null or an empty (no desired input). As default, all delivered input objects are consumed and must be also delivered as output in both Operator.getOutputClasses() and Operator.apply() if this is necessary. This default behavior can be changed by overriding Operator.getInputDescription(Class). Subclasses which implement this method should not make use of parameters since this method is invoked by getParameterTypes(). Therefore, parameters are not fully available at this point of time and this might lead to exceptions. Please use InputDescriptions instead.

Specified by:

getInputClasses in class Operator

getOutputClasses

public java.lang.Class[] getOutputClasses()

Description copied from class: Operator

Returns the classes that are guaranteed to be returned by apply() as additional output. Please note that input object which should not be consumed must also be defined by this method (e.g. for preprocessing operators). The default behavior for input consumation is defined by Operator.getInputDescription(Class) and can be changed by overwriting this method. Objects which are not consumed must not be defined as additional output in this method. May be null or an empy array (no additional output is produced).

Specified by:

getOutputClasses in class Operator