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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

ConfigurationListener

public class ConsistencyFeatureSetEvaluator
extends Operator

Consistency attribute subset evaluator. For more information see:
Liu, H., and Setiono, R., (1996). A probabilistic approach to feature selection - A filter solution. In 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'96), July 1996, pp. 319-327. Bari, Italy.

This operator evaluates the worth of a subset of attributes by the level of consistency in the class values when the training instances are projected onto the subset of attributes. Consistency of any subset can never be lower than that of the full set of attributes, hence the usual practice is to use this subset evaluator in conjunction with a Random or Exhaustive search which looks for the smallest subset with consistency equal to that of the full set of attributes.

This operator can only be applied for classification data sets, i.e. where the label attribute is nominal.

Version:

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

Author:

Ingo Mierswa

Constructor Summary

ConsistencyFeatureSetEvaluator(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

ConsistencyFeatureSetEvaluator

public ConsistencyFeatureSetEvaluator(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