/**
* Generate artificial training examples.
*
* @param artSize size of examples set to create
* @param data training data
* @return the set of unlabeled artificial examples
*/
protected Instances generateArtificialData(int artSize, Instances data) {
int numAttributes = data.numAttributes();
Instances artData = new Instances(data, artSize);
double[] att;
Instance artInstance;
for (int i = 0; i < artSize; i++) {
att = new double[numAttributes];
for (int j = 0; j < numAttributes; j++) {
if (data.attribute(j).isNominal()) {
// Select nominal value based on the frequency of occurence in the training data
double[] stats = (double[]) m_AttributeStats.get(j);
att[j] = (double) selectIndexProbabilistically(stats);
} else if (data.attribute(j).isNumeric()) {
// Generate numeric value from the Guassian distribution
// defined by the mean and std dev of the attribute
double[] stats = (double[]) m_AttributeStats.get(j);
att[j] = (m_Random.nextGaussian() * stats[1]) + stats[0];
} else System.err.println("Decorate can only handle numeric and nominal values.");
}
artInstance = new Instance(1.0, att);
artData.add(artInstance);
}
return artData;
}
/**
* Returns description of the Decorate classifier.
*
* @return description of the Decorate classifier as a string
*/
public String toString() {
if (m_Committee == null) {
return "Decorate: No model built yet.";
}
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
text.append("Decorate base classifiers: \n\n");
for (int i = 0; i < m_Committee.size(); i++)
text.append(((Classifier) m_Committee.get(i)).toString() + "\n\n");
text.append("Number of classifier in the ensemble: " + m_Committee.size() + "\n");
return text.toString();
}
/**
* Calculates the class membership probabilities for the given test instance.
*
* @param instance the instance to be classified
* @return predicted class probability distribution
* @exception Exception if distribution can't be computed successfully
*/
public double[] distributionForInstance(Instance instance) throws Exception {
if (instance.classAttribute().isNumeric()) {
throw new UnsupportedClassTypeException("Decorate can't handle a numeric class!");
}
double[] sums = new double[instance.numClasses()], newProbs;
Classifier curr;
for (int i = 0; i < m_Committee.size(); i++) {
curr = (Classifier) m_Committee.get(i);
newProbs = curr.distributionForInstance(instance);
for (int j = 0; j < newProbs.length; j++) sums[j] += newProbs[j];
}
if (Utils.eq(Utils.sum(sums), 0)) {
return sums;
} else {
Utils.normalize(sums);
return sums;
}
}