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

package weka.clusterers;

import weka.core.Instance;

/**
 * Interface for clusterers that can estimate the density for a given instance.
 * Implementations will typically extend AbstractDensityBasedClusterer.
 *
 * @author   Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @author Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
 * @version  $Revision: 5987 $
 */
public interface DensityBasedClusterer extends Clusterer {

  /**
   * Returns the prior probability of each cluster.
   *
   * @return the prior probability for each cluster
   * @exception Exception if priors could not be 
   * returned successfully
   */
  double[] clusterPriors() throws Exception;

  /**
   * Computes the log of the conditional density (per cluster) for a given instance.
   * 
   * @param instance the instance to compute the density for
   * @return an array containing the estimated densities
   * @exception Exception if the density could not be computed
   * successfully
   */
  double[] logDensityPerClusterForInstance(Instance instance) throws Exception;

  /**
   * Computes the density for a given instance.
   * 
   * @param instance the instance to compute the density for
   * @return the density.
   * @exception Exception if the density could not be computed successfully
   */
  double logDensityForInstance(Instance instance) throws Exception;

  /** 
   * Returns the logs of the joint densities for a given instance.
   *
   * @param inst the instance 
   * @return the array of values
   * @exception Exception if values could not be computed
   */
  double[] logJointDensitiesForInstance(Instance inst) throws Exception;
}