Package weka.estimators

Class NNConditionalEstimator

java.lang.Object

weka.estimators.NNConditionalEstimator

All Implemented Interfaces:

RevisionHandler, ConditionalEstimator

public class NNConditionalEstimator
extends Object
implements ConditionalEstimator

Conditional probability estimator for a numeric domain conditional upon a numeric domain (using Mahalanobis distance).

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Len Trigg (trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
NNConditionalEstimator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addValue(double data, double given, double weight)	Add a new data value to the current estimator.
Estimator	getEstimator(double given)	Get a probability estimator for a value
double	getProbability(double data, double given)	Get a probability estimate for a value
String	getRevision()	Returns the revision string.
static void	main(String[] argv)	Main method for testing this class.
String	toString()	Display a representation of this estimator

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

NNConditionalEstimator

public NNConditionalEstimator()

Method Detail

addValue

public void addValue(double data,
                     double given,
                     double weight)

Add a new data value to the current estimator.

Specified by:

addValue in interface ConditionalEstimator

Parameters:

data - the new data value

given - the new value that data is conditional upon

weight - the weight assigned to the data value

getEstimator

public Estimator getEstimator(double given)

Get a probability estimator for a value

Specified by:

getEstimator in interface ConditionalEstimator

Parameters:

given - the new value that data is conditional upon

Returns:

the estimator for the supplied value given the condition

getProbability

public double getProbability(double data,
                             double given)

Get a probability estimate for a value

Specified by:

getProbability in interface ConditionalEstimator

Parameters:

data - the value to estimate the probability of

given - the new value that data is conditional upon

Returns:

the estimated probability of the supplied value

toString

public String toString()

Display a representation of this estimator

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getRevision

public String getRevision()

Returns the revision string.

Specified by:

getRevision in interface RevisionHandler

Returns:

the revision

main

public static void main(String[] argv)

Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:

argv - should contain a sequence of numeric values