weka.classifiers
Class IB1

java.lang.Object
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  +--weka.classifiers.Classifier
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        +--weka.classifiers.IB1

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable, UpdateableClassifier

public class IB1

extends Classifier

implements UpdateableClassifier

IB1-type classifier. Uses a simple distance measure to find the training instance closest to the given test instance, and predicts the same class as this training instance. If multiple instances are the same (smallest) distance to the test instance, the first one found is used. For more information, see

Aha, D., and D. Kibler (1991) "Instance-based learning algorithms", Machine Learning, vol.6, pp. 37-66.

Author:

Stuart Inglis (singlis@cs.waikato.ac.nz), Len Trigg (trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz), Eibe Frank (eibe@cs.waikato.ac.nz)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

IB1()

Method Summary

void	buildClassifier(Instances instances) Generates the classifier.
double	classifyInstance(Instance instance) Classifies the given test instance.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] argv) Main method for testing this class.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns a description of this classifier.
void	updateClassifier(Instance instance) Updates the classifier.

Methods inherited from class weka.classifiers.Classifier

forName, makeCopies

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

IB1

public IB1()

Method Detail

buildClassifier

public void buildClassifier(Instances instances)
                     throws java.lang.Exception

Generates the classifier.

Overrides:

buildClassifier in class Classifier

Parameters:

instances - set of instances serving as training data

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the classifier has not been generated successfully

updateClassifier

public void updateClassifier(Instance instance)
                      throws java.lang.Exception

Updates the classifier.

Specified by:

updateClassifier in interface UpdateableClassifier

Parameters:

instance - the instance to be put into the classifier

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the instance could not be included successfully

classifyInstance

public double classifyInstance(Instance instance)
                        throws java.lang.Exception

Classifies the given test instance.

Overrides:

classifyInstance in class Classifier

Parameters:

instance - the instance to be classified

Returns:

the predicted class for the instance

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if the instance can't be classified

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns a description of this classifier.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a description of this classifier as a string.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] argv)

Main method for testing this class.

Parameters:

argv - should contain command line arguments for evaluation (see Evaluation).