/* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ /* * ConsistencySubsetEval.java * Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand * */ package weka.attributeSelection; import weka.core.Capabilities; import weka.core.Instance; import weka.core.Instances; import weka.core.RevisionHandler; import weka.core.RevisionUtils; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation; import weka.core.TechnicalInformationHandler; import weka.core.Utils; import weka.core.Capabilities.Capability; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Field; import weka.core.TechnicalInformation.Type; import weka.filters.Filter; import weka.filters.supervised.attribute.Discretize; import java.io.Serializable; import java.util.BitSet; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Hashtable; /** * ConsistencySubsetEval :
*
* 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.
*
* For more information see:
*
* H. Liu, R. Setiono: A probabilistic approach to feature selection - A filter solution. In: 13th International Conference on Machine Learning, 319-327, 1996. *

* * BibTeX: *

 * @inproceedings{Liu1996,
 *    author = {H. Liu and R. Setiono},
 *    booktitle = {13th International Conference on Machine Learning},
 *    pages = {319-327},
 *    title = {A probabilistic approach to feature selection - A filter solution},
 *    year = {1996}
 * }
 * 
*

* * @author Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz) * @version $Revision: 5447 $ * @see Discretize */ public class ConsistencySubsetEval extends ASEvaluation implements SubsetEvaluator, TechnicalInformationHandler { /** for serialization */ static final long serialVersionUID = -2880323763295270402L; /** training instances */ private Instances m_trainInstances; /** class index */ private int m_classIndex; /** number of attributes in the training data */ private int m_numAttribs; /** number of instances in the training data */ private int m_numInstances; /** Discretise numeric attributes */ private Discretize m_disTransform; /** Hash table for evaluating feature subsets */ private Hashtable m_table; /** * Class providing keys to the hash table. */ public class hashKey implements Serializable, RevisionHandler { /** for serialization */ static final long serialVersionUID = 6144138512017017408L; /** Array of attribute values for an instance */ private double [] attributes; /** True for an index if the corresponding attribute value is missing. */ private boolean [] missing; /** The key */ private int key; /** * Constructor for a hashKey * * @param t an instance from which to generate a key * @param numAtts the number of attributes * @throws Exception if something goes wrong */ public hashKey(Instance t, int numAtts) throws Exception { int i; int cindex = t.classIndex(); key = -999; attributes = new double [numAtts]; missing = new boolean [numAtts]; for (i=0;i