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