source: src/main/java/weka/estimators/NDConditionalEstimator.java @ 11

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

package weka.estimators;

import weka.core.RevisionUtils;

/** 
 * Conditional probability estimator for a numeric domain conditional upon
 * a discrete domain (utilises separate normal estimators for each discrete
 * conditioning value).
 *
 * @author Len Trigg (trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version $Revision: 1.7 $
 */
public class NDConditionalEstimator implements ConditionalEstimator {

  /** Hold the sub-estimators */
  private NormalEstimator [] m_Estimators;

  /**
   * Constructor
   *
   * @param numCondSymbols the number of conditioning symbols 
   * @param precision the  precision to which numeric values are given. For
   * example, if the precision is stated to be 0.1, the values in the
   * interval (0.25,0.35] are all treated as 0.3. 
   */
  public NDConditionalEstimator(int numCondSymbols, double precision) {

    m_Estimators = new NormalEstimator [numCondSymbols];
    for(int i = 0; i < numCondSymbols; i++) {
      m_Estimators[i] = new NormalEstimator(precision);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Add a new data value to the current estimator.
   *
   * @param data the new data value 
   * @param given the new value that data is conditional upon 
   * @param weight the weight assigned to the data value 
   */
  public void addValue(double data, double given, double weight) {

    m_Estimators[(int)given].addValue(data, weight);
  }

  /**
   * Get a probability estimator for a value
   *
   * @param given the new value that data is conditional upon 
   * @return the estimator for the supplied value given the condition
   */
  public Estimator getEstimator(double given) {

    return m_Estimators[(int)given];
  }

  /**
   * Get a probability estimate for a value
   *
   * @param data the value to estimate the probability of
   * @param given the new value that data is conditional upon 
   * @return the estimated probability of the supplied value
   */
  public double getProbability(double data, double given) {

    return getEstimator(given).getProbability(data);
  }

  /**
   * Display a representation of this estimator
   */
  public String toString() {

    String result = "ND Conditional Estimator. " 
      + m_Estimators.length + " sub-estimators:\n";
    for(int i = 0; i < m_Estimators.length; i++) {
      result += "Sub-estimator " + i + ": " + m_Estimators[i];
    }
    return result;
  }
  
  /**
   * Returns the revision string.
   * 
   * @return            the revision
   */
  public String getRevision() {
    return RevisionUtils.extract("$Revision: 1.7 $");
  }

  /**
   * Main method for testing this class.
   *
   * @param argv should contain a sequence of pairs of integers which
   * will be treated as numeric, symbolic.
   */
  public static void main(String [] argv) {
    
    try {
      if (argv.length == 0) {
        System.out.println("Please specify a set of instances.");
        return;
      }
      int currentA = Integer.parseInt(argv[0]);
      int maxA = currentA;
      int currentB = Integer.parseInt(argv[1]);
      int maxB = currentB;
      for(int i = 2; i < argv.length - 1; i += 2) {
        currentA = Integer.parseInt(argv[i]);
        currentB = Integer.parseInt(argv[i + 1]);
        if (currentA > maxA) {
          maxA = currentA;
        }
        if (currentB > maxB) {
          maxB = currentB;
        }
      }
      NDConditionalEstimator newEst = new NDConditionalEstimator(maxB + 1,
                                                                 1);
      for(int i = 0; i < argv.length - 1; i += 2) {
        currentA = Integer.parseInt(argv[i]);
        currentB = Integer.parseInt(argv[i + 1]);
        System.out.println(newEst);
        System.out.println("Prediction for " + currentA + '|' + currentB 
                           + " = "
                           + newEst.getProbability(currentA, currentB));
        newEst.addValue(currentA, currentB, 1);
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}