// Catalano Machine Learning Library
// The Catalano Framework
//
// Copyright © Diego Catalano, 2012-2016
// diego.catalano at live.com
//
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package Catalano.MachineLearning.Performance;

import Catalano.MachineLearning.Classification.IClassifier;
import Catalano.MachineLearning.Dataset.DatasetClassification;

/**
 * Interface common for classifier performance.
 * @author Diego Catalano
 */
public interface IValidation {
    
    /**
     * Compute validation.
     * @param classifier Classifier.
     * @param dataset Dataset.
     * @return Correctly classified rate.
     */
    public double Run(IClassifier classifier, DatasetClassification dataset);
    
    /**
     * Compute validation.
     * @param classifier Classifier.
     * @param data Data.
     * @param labels Labels.
     * @return Correctly classified rate.
     */
    public double Run(IClassifier classifier, double[][] data, int[] labels);
}