/**
* 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;
}
/**
* Given cumulative probabilities select a nominal attribute value index
*
* @param cdf array of cumulative probabilities
* @return index of attribute selected based on the probability distribution
*/
protected int selectIndexProbabilistically(double[] cdf) {
double rnd = m_Random.nextDouble();
int index = 0;
while (index < cdf.length && rnd > cdf[index]) {
index++;
}
return index;
}