weka.attributeSelection
Interface AttributeEvaluator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChiSquaredAttributeEval, CostSensitiveAttributeEval, FilteredAttributeEval, GainRatioAttributeEval, InfoGainAttributeEval, LatentSemanticAnalysis, OneRAttributeEval, PrincipalComponents, ReliefFAttributeEval, SVMAttributeEval, SymmetricalUncertAttributeEval, UnsupervisedAttributeEvaluator

public interface AttributeEvaluator

Interface for classes that evaluate attributes individually.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

Mark Hall (mhall@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

Method Summary

double

evaluateAttribute(int attribute) evaluates an individual attribute

Method Detail

evaluateAttribute

double evaluateAttribute(int attribute)
                         throws java.lang.Exception

evaluates an individual attribute

Parameters:

attribute - the index of the attribute to be evaluated

Returns:

the "merit" of the attribute

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the attribute could not be evaluated