source: src/main/java/weka/classifiers/trees/j48/BinC45ModelSelection.java @ 23

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/*
 *    BinC45ModelSelection.java
 *    Copyright (C) 1999 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 *
 */

package weka.classifiers.trees.j48;

import weka.core.Attribute;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.RevisionUtils;
import weka.core.Utils;

import java.util.Enumeration;

/**
 * Class for selecting a C4.5-like binary (!) split for a given dataset.
 *
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 6073 $
 */
public class BinC45ModelSelection
  extends ModelSelection {

  /** for serialization */
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 179170923545122001L;

  /** Minimum number of instances in interval. */
  private int m_minNoObj;               

  /** Use MDL correction? */
  private boolean m_useMDLcorrection;         

  /** The FULL training dataset. */
  private Instances m_allData; 

  /**
   * Initializes the split selection method with the given parameters.
   *
   * @param minNoObj minimum number of instances that have to occur in
   * at least two subsets induced by split
   * @param allData FULL training dataset (necessary for selection of
   * split points).  
   * @param useMDLcorrection whether to use MDL adjustement when
   * finding splits on numeric attributes
   */
  public BinC45ModelSelection(int minNoObj,Instances allData,
                             boolean useMDLcorrection){
    m_minNoObj = minNoObj;
    m_allData = allData;
    m_useMDLcorrection = useMDLcorrection;
  }

  /**
   * Sets reference to training data to null.
   */
  public void cleanup() {

    m_allData = null;
  }

  /**
   * Selects C4.5-type split for the given dataset.
   */
  public final ClassifierSplitModel selectModel(Instances data){

    double minResult;
    double currentResult;
    BinC45Split [] currentModel;
    BinC45Split bestModel = null;
    NoSplit noSplitModel = null;
    double averageInfoGain = 0;
    int validModels = 0;
    boolean multiVal = true;
    Distribution checkDistribution;
    double sumOfWeights;
    int i;
    
    try{

      // Check if all Instances belong to one class or if not
      // enough Instances to split.
      checkDistribution = new Distribution(data);
      noSplitModel = new NoSplit(checkDistribution);
      if (Utils.sm(checkDistribution.total(),2*m_minNoObj) ||
          Utils.eq(checkDistribution.total(),
                   checkDistribution.perClass(checkDistribution.maxClass())))
        return noSplitModel;

      // Check if all attributes are nominal and have a 
      // lot of values.
      Enumeration enu = data.enumerateAttributes();
      while (enu.hasMoreElements()) {
        Attribute attribute = (Attribute) enu.nextElement();
        if ((attribute.isNumeric()) ||
            (Utils.sm((double)attribute.numValues(),
                      (0.3*(double)m_allData.numInstances())))){
          multiVal = false;
          break;
        }
      }
      currentModel = new BinC45Split[data.numAttributes()];
      sumOfWeights = data.sumOfWeights();

      // For each attribute.
      for (i = 0; i < data.numAttributes(); i++){
        
        // Apart from class attribute.
        if (i != (data).classIndex()){
          
          // Get models for current attribute.
          currentModel[i] = new BinC45Split(i,m_minNoObj,sumOfWeights,m_useMDLcorrection);
          currentModel[i].buildClassifier(data);
          
          // Check if useful split for current attribute
          // exists and check for enumerated attributes with 
          // a lot of values.
          if (currentModel[i].checkModel())
            if ((data.attribute(i).isNumeric()) ||
                (multiVal || Utils.sm((double)data.attribute(i).numValues(),
                                      (0.3*(double)m_allData.numInstances())))){
              averageInfoGain = averageInfoGain+currentModel[i].infoGain();
              validModels++;
            }
        }else
          currentModel[i] = null;
      }
      
      // Check if any useful split was found.
      if (validModels == 0)
        return noSplitModel;
      averageInfoGain = averageInfoGain/(double)validModels;

      // Find "best" attribute to split on.
      minResult = 0;
      for (i=0;i<data.numAttributes();i++){
        if ((i != (data).classIndex()) &&
            (currentModel[i].checkModel()))
          
          // Use 1E-3 here to get a closer approximation to the original
          // implementation.
          if ((currentModel[i].infoGain() >= (averageInfoGain-1E-3)) &&
              Utils.gr(currentModel[i].gainRatio(),minResult)){ 
            bestModel = currentModel[i];
            minResult = currentModel[i].gainRatio();
          }
      }
      
      // Check if useful split was found.
      if (Utils.eq(minResult,0))
        return noSplitModel;

      // Add all Instances with unknown values for the corresponding
      // attribute to the distribution for the model, so that
      // the complete distribution is stored with the model. 
      bestModel.distribution().
        addInstWithUnknown(data,bestModel.attIndex());
      
      // Set the split point analogue to C45 if attribute numeric.
      bestModel.setSplitPoint(m_allData);
      return bestModel;
    }catch(Exception e){
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Selects C4.5-type split for the given dataset.
   */
  public final ClassifierSplitModel selectModel(Instances train, Instances test) {

    return selectModel(train);
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return            the revision
   */
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 6073 $");
  }
}