weka.attributeSelection

Interface AttributeEvaluator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClassifierAttributeEval, CorrelationAttributeEval, GainRatioAttributeEval, InfoGainAttributeEval, OneRAttributeEval, PrincipalComponents, ReliefFAttributeEval, SymmetricalUncertAttributeEval, UnsupervisedAttributeEvaluator

public interface AttributeEvaluator

Interface for classes that evaluate attributes individually.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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