org.jscience.computing.ai.casebasedreasoning
Class TraitStatistics

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.computing.ai.casebasedreasoning.TraitStatistics

public class TraitStatistics
extends java.lang.Object

The TraitStatistics class contains statistical info

about the various values for a single, specific trait.

That includes the max value, min value and range

This class has two primary purposes.

First, we need this info to handle queries that use the variables

[MAX_VALUE] and [MIN_VALUE]

Second, we need the min, max and range info to do the

nearest neighbor/similarity calculation

Although this should be obvious, this class was only designed

to work with numbers - i don't want to compute degrees of

similarity on strings or booleans

When building stats for strings and booleans, min=0 max=1

It is believed that DataSetStatistics is the only class

that will instantiate this one. The class was designed

to be contained by DataSetStatistics

Constructor Summary

TraitStatistics(java.lang.String traitName)

Method Summary

void	addExample(float value)
float	getMaximumValue() DOCUMENT ME!
float	getMinimumValue() DOCUMENT ME!
float	getRange() DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	getTraitName() DOCUMENT ME!
protected void	setMaximumValue(float value)
protected void	setMinimumValue(float value)
protected void	setTraitName(java.lang.String name)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TraitStatistics

public TraitStatistics(java.lang.String traitName)

Method Detail

addExample

public void addExample(float value)

getMaximumValue

public float getMaximumValue()

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Returns:

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getMinimumValue

public float getMinimumValue()

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Returns:

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getTraitName

public java.lang.String getTraitName()

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Returns:

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getRange

public float getRange()

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Returns:

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setMaximumValue

protected void setMaximumValue(float value)

setMinimumValue

protected void setMinimumValue(float value)

setTraitName

protected void setTraitName(java.lang.String name)